Comment by klibertp

> I'm not really sure what the appeal of Elixir as a language is actually supposed to be

Easy:

    - rebinding
    - higher-level OTP abstractions
    - AST macros
    - nicer, more readable syntax
    - (optionally) cleaner stdlib

(Assuming you're not trolling: you chose to focus on features that can only be judged subjectively, and therefore can only be discussed as preferences. It's ok to have them, but actively displaying them is a bit pointless. Objectively measurable features of both languages put them very close together, with both having slight advantages over the other in different areas, on average making them almost equivalent. Especially compared to anything non-BEAM.)