I apologize for my misconceptions and I would really enjoy reading such a blog post. Do you have an address or RSS feed I could check in at later? At the risk of making another bad estimation, I still feel like (at this point in time anyway) you still need to know Erlang and OTP to understand and appreciate Elixir.

As an aside, have you seen Joxa? It's a LISP for the Erlang VM. I'm really not trying to be a downer about this, I think it's great that the Erlang VM is having these new languages pop up and José Valim is one of my favorite Ruby programmers, so I have high hopes for Elixir. I hope after I get better at Erlang I can revisit Elixir and appreciate the things you are talking about.