Not your parent commenter but likely they at least partially meant that, yes. Though that alone can't reduce LoC by 90%. Elixir is just incredibly terse and no

Not your parent commenter but likely they at least partially meant that, yes. Though that alone can't reduce LoC by 90%. Elixir is just incredibly terse and no-bullshit language in general. All the shorter code idioms together make for a readable and to-the-point code.