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Spot on! I did some work on OTP and it seemed to be neat. I did learn Go just to compare how easy/fun it would be to work with. I liked Go but I came back to Elixir because of pattern matching, minimal configuration and readable semantics.

Not to mention, there's not much boilerplate to deal with and we've got useful control structures like the very readable `cond`s instead of if {} else if { } blocks (Although you can use these, it is generally discouraged in Elixir). I will tell you that being pushed towards writing "cond" s and "when"s, "with"s has guided me towards achieving a better and more readily understood codebase.



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