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As a Pythonista, I'm envious that Rubyists have this excellent thing called Elixir to migrate to. I would jump wholesale to Elixir if I could fulfill all my various use cases with it. But at one point I may start using Phoenix for my web stuff.

Definitely keeping my eye on it, and I think these guys (Elixir in particular) nailed the right implementation.

If I had a language I could wish for, a BEAM VM language with Pythonic syntax would be it.

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I have actually tried to a make Elixir space sensitive but I was not comfortable on how it played out with the macro system. You can still see though some Python influences, like heredocs, doc tests, the System module, etc.

Still, past the initial syntax similarities with Ruby, it is a very different language than both Ruby and Python. You should definitely give it a try :)

An invite directly from the head honcho himself! Thanks Jose, I will do so. My dream language was basically Elixir, another BEAM VM language but Pythonic but called something like 'Hydra' to play off the Python theme. Envisioning a multiheaded snake fits right in with the Erlang actor theme.

But, why reinvent the wheel when you guys already have something similar enough. I'll for sure reserve some time to dive in.

I am a Pythonista myself and I use Elixir at work. Even though Elixir looks like Ruby, it has very little in common with Ruby. Elixir's syntax is very simple and it's very easy to migrate from Ruby/Python. Please try it, you may actually like it more than Python :)

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