Not really, it's a pretty different language that in some ways looks superficially like ruby. To start with, ruby is object-oriented, everything in ruby is an

Not really, it's a pretty different language that in some ways looks superficially like ruby. To start with, ruby is object-oriented, everything in ruby is an Object of a Class; while Elixir is functional, and doesn't even have Objects and Classes. But sure, other languages than ruby certainly exist, some of which will be faster, in various use cases/contexts!