That’s very even-handed and balanced—a hard act for me to pull off. 
I don’t think it’s language design differences. I attribute it to their ages: Python is decades older than Elixir and it carries some baggage:
- Parts of Python core are fluent (Elixir pipe-style) api’s, read left-to-right.
- Other core libs require a right-to-left function-invocation style reading.
I’ve researched this deeply and the best I can see is, Python’s battling paradigms are present due to historical reasons.
In contrast, Elixir was designed with advantage of seeing was Python, Ruby, etc. did well and not so well. Ruby, in turn, was designed looking at Python. Even though everything in Python is an object, method chaining couldn’t be universally applied. Ruby sought to correct that in its design.
