I'm a bit younger than you but not much. I looked at Erlang when I learned Elixir because it's handy to be able to read the source code of some modules or under

I'm a bit younger than you but not much. I looked at Erlang when I learned Elixir because it's handy to be able to read the source code of some modules or understand some examples. There is usually a 1:1 transposition between the two languages. That is, they are the same language with different syntax and a very simple way to translate between them. That said, Elixir is nicer to read but I was spoiled by Ruby. Erlang is nicer than most of the stuff of the 80s though. However I wish the Elixir team had more courage and did without all the boilerplate of those handle casts and calls in servers. They used macros to do all sort of things, so I guess they could use them to bury that complexity into the depths of the language and let us use real function names to call servers. It would start to open a gap between Elixir and Erlang but it would be worth it.