Technically Elixir is really close to a Lisp-2. It is not a real lisp as it is not homoiconic. But it is not far and the macros are heavily inspired from Clojure.
Elixir in general is probably close to Clojure than Ruby in its internals. And well Erlang of course.
Yeah, it's like Lisp macros. Actually, Elixir code is AST+sugar as https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/syntax-reference.html shows.
The description above from the article seems like closer to the Lisp macros. I have not programmed in Elixir yet.
Can someone who knows comment on the similarity here?