I think Elixir's Ruby-like syntax is one of the many things that make it great. Comparing the two, I think Prolog may be easier for handling databases (I like

I think Elixir's Ruby-like syntax is one of the many things that make it great. Comparing the two, I think Prolog may be easier for handling databases (I like Ecto, but it can be a little complex to set up and get right). Both Elixir and Prolog handle pattern-matching, but I think Elixir's syntax is nicer to work with. Of course, this is subjective. Both are great at handling list data. IO is consistently easy with Elixir whereas it can be difficult at times with Prolog. Elixir and Erlang allow you to create supervision trees which can watch code and automatically and quickly recover from unexpected errors. Prolog's error handling and recovery can be slow. The overheard of calling a goal through catch/3, for instance, is quite significant compared to Elixir/Erlang.