I thought Erlang looked weirder than Elixir (to the extent that I was turned off until Elixir came along), but fortunately, both of our opinions are compatible as everything compiles down to BEAM and is interoperable :)<p>From a semantic persopective I&#x27;ve found that I almost automatically understand Erlang just from working with Elixir. Some things like OTP are pretty much identical. Plus you get &quot;real&quot; macros :)