Sincerest apologies, please rest assured it wasn’t meant that way, I’m getting older and often don’t want to put the soft gloves. 
My general stance is that our area never learns. By the time most of us are mature enough to contribute… we usually no longer want to, and then the “innovations” are left for the youngsters who make a whole huge bunch of new and exciting errors. Quite tragic.
Eh. I’m sure we’re forgiven if we do not take seriously people who judge by syntax.
At this point in my life and career I found out I can easily learn and work with most of the programming language syntaxes I ever stumbled upon – and that people’s misgivings about them are usually shallow. Syntax can get in the way of thinking about a problem and that’s a legitimate complaint but again, it’s the one that’s very rarely raised.
My only remark towards Erlang / Elixir is that we could use some more static strong typing but at the end of the day I’ll just use (or roll my own) runtime validation library and that’ll be me nailing my developer experience.
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