I love that this thread is still going on 
I think “crime against humanity” in terms of Erlang syntax is a little harsh. So I’ve never actually written anything in Erlang but I’ve looked at a lot of code in my quest to grok Elixir. I actually think some things are nicer in Erlang—function definition comes to mind. I also prefer the explicit function exporting—defp doesn’t standout quite so well for me… I should probably change the syntax highlighting.
I’m back from a 2.5 month break from learning Elixir. I was able to take a lot of my learnings and apply them to our messy functional frontend React code at work. I was starting to make my peace with React but got stuck on some refactorings, so I came back to Elixir for some inspiration. I’m now back to being bitter than I’m forced to work in React every day. Ah well. That’ll change some day, I’m sure—I just like the company I work for too much right now to make a change.
