I think a difference is that Elixir is deliberately dynamically typed, so you don't expect type safety. You write the happy path and rely on "fail fast" and the

I think a difference is that Elixir is deliberately dynamically typed, so you don't expect type safety. You write the happy path and rely on "fail fast" and the actor hierarchies to write robust code. Besides, Elixir/Erlang has the best dynamically-typed equivalent of algebraic types (tuples + atoms + pattern matching) :-)