First: Elixir has strong dynamic typing. JavaScript has weak dynamic typing. Second: As someone who uses Elixir for their day job, Racket for PL research, and

First: Elixir has strong dynamic typing. JavaScript has weak dynamic typing. Second: As someone who uses Elixir for their day job, Racket for PL research, and Python for some CS classes, I can state with 100% confidence that Elixir is much closer to Lisp than Python. Elixir has macros that operate on the level of abstract syntax trees! Indeed, I think that is how most of this project was implemented.