Only in the second chapter and I can tell that I'm not going to like Elixir as a language. Well aware of the ecosystem and other powers it wields (hence why I have this book), but there's just too much syntactic sugar for my taste 😐 (gives me Ruby vibes)
Been learning Erlang a lot at the same time (one could say...concurrently 🤪). Regarding syntax and language decisions, I find it much more approachable and consistent. Maybe more verbose (as the author of this book asserts), but I think I generally prefer that if we're not talking about extremes
@ids1024 purely fron a language perspective, that covers most of it, although would argue that the meta-programming capabilities is quite a big feature for Elixir (from what I can tell).
I found this writeup to be helpful (spoiler: Elixir is actually very LISP-like) - maybe it explains some of my distaste 😄
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