If you use Elixir for a while you may find that there is a lot more consistency, and almost no ‘cutesy’ code around. Elixir’s syntax only looks a little like Ruby at first glance.
Yeah, as a seasoned Ruby dev I found the "similarities" between Elixir and Ruby to be surface-level. They're very different languages. Even the syntax isn't that similar once you get past your first impression.
But don't listen to me - take it from none other than José Valim, Elixir's creator:
> Folks tend to understate the influence of Erlang and overstate the influence of Ruby on Elixir. … Ruby did influence the syntax and the names in the standard library, but the latter was also done in a more "democratic" fashion: I would look into Ruby, JavaScript, Clojure, Haskell, and choose a name that was common and closer reflected the semantics that would fit Elixir (for example, the term "protocol" come from Clojure).
