As an Elixir/Erlang programmer, the thing that caught my eye about it was how it seemed to really actually be exploring some high level ideas Joe Armstrong had talked about. I'm thinking of, I think, [0] and [1], around essentially a content-addressable functions. Was he at all an influence on the language, or was it kind of an independent discovery of the same ideas?
[0] https://groups.google.com/g/erlang-programming/c/LKLesmrss2k...
[1] https://joearms.github.io/published/2015-03-12-The_web_of_na...