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Personally I spent most of my learning curve on the BEAM facilities rather than Elixir itself. Elixir as a language is simple and fairly imperative, it's quick to pick up.

Using the language for data transformations and such is a breeze but learning the concurrency primitives, message passing, OTP tooling and behaviors is where the real work is in my opinion, when building distributed systems on top of BEAM.