I don't have any experience with it, but your question reminded of this article[0] that came up on HN a while ago arguing it's more than just syntax differences

I don't have any experience with it, but your question reminded of this article[0] that came up on HN a while ago arguing it's more than just syntax differences. Basically that it's more a Clojure/Scala than a Coffeescript. [0] http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/06/11/elixir-its-not-about-syntax/ http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/06/11/elixir-its-not-about-syn...