It runs on the Erlang BEAM virtual machine. But it’s very much it’s own language, and looks and feels very different to Erlang. I would say the Elxir is based

It runs on the Erlang BEAM virtual machine. But it’s very much it’s own language, and looks and feels very different to Erlang. I would say the Elxir is based on Erlang about as much as Scala is based on Java.