[psychphysic]

I learnt Erlang when it was still cool. And more recently (but not that recently) dabbled with learning Elixir.

Most resources are targeting those who don't come from Erlang (mostly it was from rails). And my word are they being deceived.

I don't think the Japanese/Latin analogy quite works it's like elixir is rhyming slang and Erlang is english.

But everyone insists you can get by with rhyming slang alone. Errr. Nope!

[ch4s3]

I think a better analogy is Erlang being like Latin and Elixir being like Portuguese or Spanish.

But I digress, you can learn how the BEAM and OTP work as an Elixir dev without being great at reading or writing Erlang code.