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by pessimizer 4298 days ago
>Some new projects may be developed in Elixir but it will never supplant Erlang.

I vastly prefer Erlang syntax to Elixir's, but IMO it's way too early in the game to say this. In the unlikely event that the people who were attracted to Elixir because they couldn't handle Erlang's syntax can manage to grasp OTP, I imagine that Elixir would ultimately kill Erlang dead. An Erlang that has the same power and expressiveness, runs on the same VM, and is completely compatible - but looks like Algol - would be an irresistible force.