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This.

I was able to read Erlang before knowing the name of the language. I discovered this language by looking at the source code of RabbitMQ, and I was surprised at how I could read it, knowing nothing about the language.

At first I thought atoms were variables defined somewhere (and I did not care where it was defined, the names were explicit). When I learned that they are in fact values, it blew my mind.

It's only 6 months later I started coding in Erlang. Then 3 years ago I started writing Elixir. I did not have to learn Elixir in fact, it was just another syntax for what I already knew.

I always recommend learning Erlang first with https://learnyousomeerlang.com/ and then learning Elixir. Simply because this book does a far better job at explaining OTP than the Elixir docs.

Maybe there is some value in writing learnyousomeelixir.com?