[abadpoli]

I was a python main before I started using elixir and I had similar thoughts, but after becoming more familiar with it, I actually think elixir is far less verbose than python.

They’re different enough languages that it’s really difficult to just open up an elixir codebase and try to read it. Elixir, like ruby, has a lot of syntactic sugar that just won’t make sense if you approach it with a Python mindset. Elixir is also functional, which can be a pretty big mind bender.

It’s really a language that you need to start from the basics and go through the tutorials to learn the basic syntax, operators, etc and write your own small programs. If you’re like me, you’ll just end up discouraged if you expect to be able to learn Elixir just by reading existing code.