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/tes

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.