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Discussion on: Why might I want to learn Elixir?

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Olivier “Ölbaum” Scherler

Fine, but why might I want to learn Elixir over Erlang?

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Chris Pickard

The tooling story is light years better

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João Veiga

Familiarity, if you are using languages like ruby, javascript, etc, you will find it easier to understand Elixir.
Elixir also has some high level libraries, Enum, Stream, GenStage, Agents, Tasks.
It's nothing that you can't do in Erlang, you would just have to create it by yourself.
Great tooling with Mix.

Just off the top of my head :)