Comment by rdtsc

To be fair, it is not just a different syntax. It can do a few things a bit better:

* Streams

* Actual macros

* Mutable variables (not data, of course)

Those would be kind of a pain to do in Erlang, maybe with parse transforms.

I personally prefer Erlang better. I like its syntax and immutable variables. Haven't hit a need to need macros too badly yet.