Looks can be deceptive 
You could say Elixir inherited it’s mother’s (Ruby’s!) good looks, but has the mindset of its father (Erlang!) 
A bit like me actually …just kidding 
AstonJ
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lpil
Creator of Gleam
sribe
Had Elixir not been invented, I’d probably be using Clojure…
[EDIT] and I mean I’d be happy doing so
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AstonJ
I haven’t looked at Clojure for a while …does it use def ends?
I think that’s why many people feel Elixir resembles Ruby because on the face of it, without digging deeper, it looks like Ruby the most. Similarly, Phoenix feels quite a lot like Rails in many ways too.
Whether intentional or not, I personally think it was a great move - Ruby and Rails have a very strong following precisely because of these ‘shared’ features/appearance 
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NobbZ
lpil
Creator of Gleam
It’s a Lisp, so very different syntax. The semantics and tooling of the languages are similar in many ways though
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jeremyjh
Elixir is what you get if Erlang, Ruby and Clojure had a baby and it wasn’t a mistake.
To be more specific in Elixir we have Erlang semantics, Ruby syntax and Clojure’s macros and protocols.
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lpil
Creator of Gleam
You are right. Crystal is the better option if we want speed
This somewhat depends on what the workload is. For IO bound tasks I would bet the BEAM can perform better as Crystal’s concurrency features and garbage collection are not quite as mature, and they don’t yet have parallelism.
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AstonJ
Sorry Louis the post you were replying to got deleted - there was a post in the review queue that looked like spam and the user’s IP was different to the location set in their profile (classic spam pattern) so I rejected post and chose the delete account option, which would result in any other posts they made being deleted as well if below a certain threshold. I hope they weren’t a genuine user! 
I’ve added their post into yours as a quote though, but can remove your post as well if you would prefer.
(If the deleted user is reading this and you are in fact not a spammer, please email us to get you set back up - sorry for the inconvenience!)
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RobertDober
Strangly enough working with Ruby on my daytime job and Elixir whenever I can, I feel less and less that their syntaxes are similar, anyone else having the same kind of experience?
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