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José Valim has repeatedly said that he did not create Elixir to be a whitewash of Erlang's syntax. http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/06/11/elixir-its-not-about-syn

• MCRed 12y ago
  No, but it is part of the reason for its popularity. I think it's silly that we have a generation of programmers who are unwilling to learn a language without a C or Ruby like syntax. But I must admit that I find Elixir easier to read and more comfortable than Erlang.