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You don't really need to know Erlang.

Elixir is like if Erlang and Ruby had a child. It's a functional languages, so I guess there's a bit of a curve there. Plus you get stuff like macros, which are incredible, but I thought was some kind of voodoo magic the first time I encountered them.

There's a pretty decent tutorial on the elixir site, and the phoenix site if you want to learn.

As for the learning curve, I didn't struggle with it for very long at all, but your results may vary.

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html




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