Eh it depends. Properly idiomatic elixir or erlang works very well if you can coax it out — but there is a tendency for it to generate very un-functional like large functions with lots of case and control statements and side effects in my experience, where multiple clauses and pattern matching would be the better way.

It does much better with erlang, but that’s probably just because erlang is overall a better language than elixir, and has a much better syntax.

God I wish it didn't.