I think a better analogy is Erlang being like Latin and Elixir being like Portuguese or Spanish. But I digress, you can learn how the BEAM and OTP work as an E

I think a better analogy is Erlang being like Latin and Elixir being like Portuguese or Spanish. But I digress, you can learn how the BEAM and OTP work as an Elixir dev without being great at reading or writing Erlang code.