[hugdru]

I was looking for a cool new language to learn in the holidays and hopefully do something with it web related. Like a back-end. Nothing serious though. Elixir seems way different from the languages I am used to maybe that is good.

[qaq]

Erlang/OTP has a lot of unique features not available in any other environment and Elixir gives you the power of Erlang/OTP with much easier syntax. It's different not because they are trying to be cool, but because it's driven by the unique requirements that allow all those unique features.

[hugdru]

My bad, that cool really meant something different from what I am used to. Like functional programming, homoiconicity, different paradigms for concurrency, etc. I don't really have any requirements it is just for fun :). Thanks for the info.