[sodapopcan]

++ is for concatenating lists, it's not the only functional language that uses this.

Really though who cares? `=` is already misused in most programming languages.

[mixmastamyk]

When looking at new languages, getting the basics right is the first thing I look at. Clumsy string concatenation is a blocker in my business, which is like 75% of the code.

[sodapopcan]

Actually in Elixir when doing string building you want to use "improper" lists which lets you very efficiently build up a string without doing any copying.