[mattferderer]

I believe the popular quote with Erlang is that Erlang makes hard things easy & easy things hard. Elixir was built around the idea of keeping the easy things easy. It does so by improving syntax, tooling, documentation & community in my opinion.

I believe I first read this idea in the book, Elixir in Action.

[mclehman]

Personally, I'm a fan of the Perl philosophy: make the easy things easy and the hard things possible.

[pmarreck]

I've heard this said about NixOS: It makes the easy things hard and the impossible things hard. :)