[stanmancan]

I don’t understand why people drink orange soda. If you want something orange flavoured, eat an orange! If you want something bubbly, drink soda water!

.ex compiles to beam files to be run later

.exs compiles to memory

You don’t need to know Erlang to use Elixir; I’m a few years in now and I’ve never had to write any Erlang.

[dnautics]

in the past i would have said learning to read erlang is a very nice to have for an intermediate elixirist but not really anymore, an LLM can translate between the two very easily.

[jacquesm]

That's true. Even so I would still recommend that you learn to read Erlang because of its unique approach to various software development challenges. It will simply make you a better programmer. The same goes for LISP and possibly Forth because they have some very powerful concepts unique to those languages which you can mimic to some degree in other environments to get some of the benefits.