[bsukn]

Elixir is essentially just erlang, with a more convenient syntax. Being a functional language, you shouldn't be doing nested if statements in the first place. The if statement in elixir is really just a case-switch macro.

Also writing elixir always feels like the lines of code are longer than the width of my IDE

This just seems weird to me. The pipe operator makes the code really compact in my experience, and I wish other languages had this feature.

I have a feeling you never bothered to really learn the language and just jumped on the new fancy framework, and tried to glue some code you didn't understand.

You struggling to write something isn't a language problem. I'm interested in seeing some examples that highlight your problems.

[swanros]

Coming from an imperative language background, it certainly took some time for me to start using and understanding functional constructs. But the nice thing is that once you pass that bump, it's a hell of a freeway to go down.