What are the main benefits of Elixir compared to Clojure?

[kokolegorille]

As they don’t run on the same virtual machine, You should look at the tradeoff they provide.

For a good definition of the BEAM, You can read the following post.

Learning Elixir, frst impressions ( plz don't kill me ! )

The good thing about Elixir (and Erlang) lies in the concurrency - it’s all about creating parallel process and sending messages - and this (as Alan Kay has pointed out on numerous occasions) is the essence of OO programming. OO programming is all about objects. Objects are things that respond to messages (or should be) - to get an object to do something you send it a message - how it does it is totally irrelevant - think of objects as black boxes, to get them to do something you send them a …