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Rich_Morin
Although this was hinted at in some of the posts, I’d like to make it explicit: Clojure’s community includes some truly brilliant people. Without taking anything away from our own rock stars, I’ll assert that Rich Hickey is three of the smartest people in the field.
So, even though Clojure’s (lack of) syntax makes my eyes cross, I’ve watched a huge number of Clojure video presentations and recommend doing so to anyone who wants to understand the philosophy behind both Clojure and much of Elixir.
-r
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mars0i
dimitarvp
Yep, I know. I got time and energy constraints but I absolutely want to pick it up and get good with it now.
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shishini
The main benefits Elixir have over Clojure
- The community is a lot more active, this forum is 10 times more active than any Clojure forum (and possible a lot more active than most forums for any language)
- Tons of books, which I cant really explain, but there significantly more books on elixir and the elixir eco system, compared to Clojure, and again compared to many more languages (I think there is more books on Elixir than there are books on Erlang or the BEAM itself)
- The ecosystem is a lot less fragmented , Elixir have fewer framework, but they seem to be maintained better, specially compare to pure Clojure framework, if you ignore the Java framework to which Clojure might have access
- The type system being added to Elixir, I dont think anything similar is in the works for Clojure, although it remains to be seen how much benefit this will have, but its definitely something to look into
Point 1 and 2, makes learning Elixir more enjoyable and you will have better support to learn it
Point 3, make using Elixir better if you are a Solo Developer or a Beginner
Point 4, depending on how it goes, might give Elixir the language some technical edge over Clojure
That being said, I like Clojure more purely as a language, coding Clojure in Emacs, is weirdly enjoyable
I really hope, that any lisp will one day succeed in having a nice implementation and ecosystem (Clojure is very close but not really there) until then .. you have Elixir
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rhcarvalho
That original PDF link is broken, but fortunately still available through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine:
Comparison of Erlang Runtime
System and Java Virtual Machine
Tõnis Pool
University of Tartu
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AstonJ
I might be able to shed some light on this - essentially, I feel this is down to a culture of learning, one that that we ‘inherited’ from Ruby.
I first spoke about this in a blog post about Ruby over a decade ago (I really can’t believe it’s been that long!!) I’ll quote the relevant part here:
Not only does all of that apply to Elixir as well, but I think we turned it up a notch too - by directly getting involved with some of the world’s best tech publishers. Not just by instilling that same culture of learning, or by organising our book giveaways (which gives publishers lots of all year round exposure) but by means of our discount codes - which people love and from what I’m told, have been used very extensively. Publishers are ultimately a business, so what are they going to do if they get a lot of sales from a particular language? Publish more books about it! 
While it was always our intent to foster a culture of learning here on the forum, I don’t think any of us ever expected it to go quite as far as it has. I for one am super happy that it did.
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