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> its differentiation from Elixir is purely syntactic.

Well, there's also standard library, Erlang one is very messy while Elixir one is very consistent (and pipe operator - `|>` - enforces order of arguments even in low-quality 3rd party code as well, making whole language more pleasant to work with. Same goes for utf8-binary string everywhere and other idiomatic conventions



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