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Thanks for the overview! I have seen a lot of hype around Elixir lately, do you happen to know if it contains all of the benefits of Erlang? Coming from a Ruby

Thanks for the overview! I have seen a lot of hype around Elixir lately, do you happen to know if it contains all of the benefits of Erlang? Coming from a Ruby background, Elixir looks very nice to work with syntax-wise compared to Erlang.

rubiquity 11y ago
You have all of the benefits of Erlang the language, Erlang the VM and Erlang libraries. Elixir adds hygienic macros, an awesome package manager (hex), task/test runner and build tool (mix). Elixir also has a Ruby-ish syntax, but I leave it up to the reader to make their own opinions of Elixir syntax vs Erlang syntax as that is not a war I'm interested in.