> it's basically Ruby with some slight modifications. It /looks/ like Ruby in a lot of ways, but treating it like Ruby w/ modifications is a mistake that I've

> it's basically Ruby with some slight modifications. It /looks/ like Ruby in a lot of ways, but treating it like Ruby w/ modifications is a mistake that I've seen lead to a lot of really bad usage that (at best) fails to take advantage of the underlying Beam VM, and at worst [and more commonly] actively works against it.