The charlist wonkiness does bleed into elixir. Just about every other week or so there is someone confused on elixir forums: Here's one from 2 days ago: https:

The charlist wonkiness does bleed into elixir. Just about every other week or so there is someone confused on elixir forums: Here's one from 2 days ago: https://elixirforum.com/t/unexpected-output-from-enum-module-function/48418 https://elixirforum.com/t/unexpected-output-from-enum-module... I had a junior that came from python that did not want to work in elixir because he refused to write unit tests and the fact that double quotes were different from single quotes (and double quotes were default) he couldn't deal with -- joke was on him because python3 made strings a whole lot more complicated!