Yeah but that's like saying the awkwardness of stl templates obscures the beauty of C++ or the Android app api obscures the beauty of the jvm. The genserver is

Yeah but that's like saying the awkwardness of stl templates obscures the beauty of C++ or the Android app api obscures the beauty of the jvm. The genserver is messy because it deals with a good chunk of messiness around safely managing distributed systems for you. It probably could be improved (Dave thomas critiques comes to mind) but elixir had to be conservative because if it weren't it wouldn't have had buy in from the beam community and wouldn't have become the first truly successful non-erlang language targeting the BEAM.