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Hah, yeah, let's port everything for no obvious reason.
There actually are good, obvious reasons to prefer Elixir to Erlang. Syntax is actually significant to productivity. For one quick example, Erlang requires you to terminate statements with either a comma, or a period, depending on whether it's the last statement in the section. If you move code around, you need to go back at the end and fix the commas and periods. Typically, this happens in the form of an error messa…
The syntax reason doesn't matter to existing Erlang developers -- you get used to the Erlang syntax, same as any other syntax.
The meta-programming on the other hand may well be a huge draw to Erlang shops.