> This doesn't have to be and "either one choice". The great think is both of them live on the wonderful BEAM VM. They both can take advantage of a completely c

> This doesn't have to be and "either one choice". The great think is both of them live on the wonderful BEAM VM. They both can take advantage of a completely concurrent garbage collector and all the other goodies. Some modules can be written in Erlang some in Elixir. Quite right. When criticizing Erlang, I make it a point to always specify Erlang the language and never Erlang the ecosystem. > Elixir it seems very easily can call Erlang functions. I don't know about vice-versa though. It's trivially easy. > Now with the records, yes, there has been talk about adding "frames" (the equivalent of dictionaries or hash tables in other languages). The developers are thinking about it and I believe in release after the next or the one after that we might see that. Yep, and as soon as frames are in Erlang we can begin utilizing them in Elixir too for things like pattern matching within the hash structure. The great thing about Elixir is that we don't have to wait for the OTP developers to implement features that developers want.