[dudul]

I wouldn't say, like the author, that Erlang has "prettier syntax". At first glance, Elixir's syntax is much nicer and prettier (whatever that means). However, Erlang's syntax is both more terse and consistent. It has much fewer special cases, syntactic sugar and all. It is the syntax, once you know and understand it it's simple.

That is really my main issue with Elixir. And I can understand if I'm in the minority, but I'm more comfortable typing a bit more for a consistent and predictable syntax.