Whenever there’s a discussion about Elixir, it soon becomes apparent that there’s still a lot of confusion regarding it’s purpose. Some developers have it in their heads that Elixir is merely some crazy new syntax that ex-Rubyists are using to avoid writing Erlang. Well, I’m going to try to dispell some of the myths and misconceptions with this blog post. It’s not about syntax, stupid silly! In The Excitement of Elixir, I responded to two of the most well-known criticisms of Erlang ...
