[throwaway81523]

I've used Erlang and have been interested in Elixir but haven't used it. After a little getting used to, I've generally liked the Erlang docs. I have the impression that Elixir is just Erlang with different surface syntax so the main real differences are in the library culture (Elixir's are more Ruby-inspired, with Rails's inanities mostly cleaned up). From a Lisp background, all these languages are pretty much the same. Erlang/Elixir's concurrency story is far better than say Python's, but that's not really about the language per se.

I'd actually like a statically typed BEAM language. A few of these have been attempted, but I don't think any have gotten traction.