A big thing is that v0.8 adds the (foo:bar 1 2 3) syntax; I tried using LFE for a while a few years ago and just found the (: foo bar) syntax too cumbersome. I

A big thing is that v0.8 adds the (foo:bar 1 2 3) syntax; I tried using LFE for a while a few years ago and just found the (: foo bar) syntax too cumbersome. I think I had meant to hack it into LFE but in the meantime I discovered that Erlang's native syntax, while perhaps idiosyncratic in some ways, is pretty nice for daily use. The big advantage of LFE would be macros, which otherwise have to be done with parse transforms in vanilla Erlang. (I understand Elixir also has macros, but sad to say I haven't gotten to dig into it yet.) Now that I know LFE has the namespace-style syntactic convenience, I'm going to have to try it again.