[rocketbop]

Subjective, but I don't think it's fair to say Elixir has a steep learning curve. It's quite readable, well documented, and has a good Repl so you can experiment. You can even view documentation in the Repl.

It might depend which languages you already know, but if you've done modern JavaScript a lot of the function elements will be familiar.

[cpursley]

I'd argue basics of Elixir are simpler than Ruby. The tricky part is OTP concepts but you can use Elixir without knowledge of that.

This is a wonderful resource:

https://joyofelixir.com/toc.html