This is what I came here to say. All of the 'raw language' niceties that Geoffrey mentioned in the article are true, but for me one of the greatest things in E

This is what I came here to say. All of the 'raw language' niceties that Geoffrey mentioned in the article are true, but for me one of the greatest things in Elixir is processes. Just, the way the Erlang system operates is so well thought out, I'm more impressed every time I learn something new. Shameless self-promotion here - I run http://www.elixirsips.com http://www.elixirsips.com, which is a screencast series that releases 2 new episodes per week covering some topic in Elixir. I started it out as I started learning Elixir, and I've been going for quite a while now (I'm on Episode 33 next, so 16 weeks so far). It's the most fun I've had with a programming language since I first saw Ruby, and I think the BEAM VM is the future (as is Rust/Go/clojure's core.async, other concurrency-oriented programming models, etc). So yeah, Elixir's amazing and everyone should play with it. I think just looking at these items mentioned in the article aren't even giving it a fair shake - learn about Erlang's concurrency and distribution models, or else you aren't even scratching the surface :)