[lawik]

I think the biggest hurdle would be the Functional Programming aspects. Elixir was quite easy for me to approach coming from mostly PHP, Node.js and Python (preferred Python before Elixir).

Phoenix has a sprinkling of magic or syntactic sugar through macros and stuff but the step between Phoenix and LiveView is not that mystical to me.

I have taught a novice developer, not yet out of 2-year school for web dev, to use Elixir and the Phoenix Framework. I really should interview him about that. Write something up.

I would say that Django does more stuff under the hood than Phoenix. But they are fairly different vehicles.