[josevalim]

What makes it interesting is that the syntaxes have (most likely) been designed with different goals. I can say that Elixir was designed with extensibility and meta-programming in mind. So there are some cases where I prefer the Erlang syntax (for example, I still find defining multiple function clauses each with a single expression more elegant and concise in Erlang) while there are other cases I prefer Elixir's syntax exactly because we were able to extend the language (such as the `with` special form for handling nested case expressions).

The funny thing is, if you try to add those features to the other language, they are usually refused. Erlang wants to avoid new syntactical expressions to keep it simple while Elixir's extensibility is bound to a set of limited AST rules (and we don't want to add new ones).