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by rubiquity 4359 days ago
I guess I'm misinformed on this. The output of compiling Elixir files are .beam files, not .erl files. Maybe the Elixir compiler compiles to Erlang along the way?
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Elixir's compiler emits Erlang forms, and then relies on OTP's Erlang's compiler. It is not a direct process.