Same here. When I learned it, I expected to have more trouble than I did, and the syntax just sits nicely with me. Despite all the complaints about when you use

Same here. When I learned it, I expected to have more trouble than I did, and the syntax just sits nicely with me. Despite all the complaints about when you use which punctuation, the wart factor seemed a lot lower than all the bleating complainers prepped me for. Some warts you can't get away from (e.g. records, though you might use the parse transform du jour), but others you can (e.g. if? Who uses if? Just use case!). Elixir looks nice, but for now I've got my eye on Joxa[1] instead. Anyway, lots of people worry about learning this syntax or that syntax. In this particular case, they should worry less about learning syntax and more about learning OTP, because once you get past lightweight message-passing concurrency and immutability, OTP's where most of the power lies for building a robust system. [1] http://joxa.org http://joxa.org