It&#x27;s funny, I set out to learn Erlang this year, but ended up learning Elixir first. A lot of people go to great lengths to assure that Elixir is not the &quot;CoffeeScript of Erlang&quot; (which I do understand refers to more than just syntax improvements), but I found the opposite. After getting used to Elixir syntax, Erlang seems aesthetically much more elegant.