Personally, I prefer iex over irb, iex feels more intuitive. Recently, some improvements were made into iex, the most relevant to me is the ability to use Ctrl+

Personally, I prefer iex over irb, iex feels more intuitive. Recently, some improvements were made into iex, the most relevant to me is the ability to use Ctrl+l to clean the output. Now, iex is getting closer to ipython.