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Re:State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis by jimbokun on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:20PM (#19101197)
"Elixir and Erlang are neat but I haven't had a chance to really try them out, but Elixir's choice to emulate Ruby-like syntax is unfortunate."

Of the languages you mention, Elixir seems to me like the closest experience to Clojure. Of this list:

"Lispiness, dynamic typing, functional programing, immutability, lean pragmatic design, and it runs on the JVM."

Only missing "Lispiness" and "runs on the JVM".

As for "Ruby-like" syntax, this sounds like people not trying Lisp because "too many parentheses".

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Re:State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis by jakebasile on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @08:01PM (#19101956)
I've definitely had my eye on Elixir for a while, just haven't had a need or a real itch to try it yet.

It'd be hard to give up my precious parentheses though.

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Re:State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis by ilovecaching on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:10PM (#19102675)
One of the authors of erlang also invented lisp flavored erlang, (LSP) and it's just as good as regular erlang.
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Re:State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis by peatmoss on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:30AM (#19105748)
LFE (I think you were the victim of autocorrect):

http://lfe.io/

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Re:State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis by jimbokun on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:26PM (#19107174)
"It'd be hard to give up my precious parentheses though."

Yeah, that's the "Lispiness".

Elixir does have macros, but I still don't think any macro system is as powerful or user friendly without S-expressions.

It's kind of the last step of a language becoming just another Lisp.

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