Having worked with both to create the same system (building a game server) I've found Clojure actually sits better with the functional thinking style (1 data structure, 100 functions).<p>While Phoenix was the killer app for Elixir, and Elixir has far superior readability (using the Ruby syntax); there were couple of things that were off-putting and I struggled with them.<p>1. everything is inside a module was an unnecessary distraction<p>2. And then the separation between anonymous and named functions simply were unnecessary<p>3. And that I would have to declare the data / record inside a module (??)<p>Elixir felt like a functional language un-necessarily trying to look like a class based language.<p>I sometimes feel that had Elixir had only supported functions outside of modules... oh that freedom.<p>But some of the thought that went into Flow, Channels (which has become the de riguere now), mix (developer ergonomics ftw), those micro-second latency responses, distillery are still too classy and amazing.