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Elixir isn't really Ruby inspired though. The only thing about it that really derives from Ruby is the focus on developer productivity.

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The syntax is heavily inspired by Ruby.

What, the words def and do?

Jose himself has cited ruby for syntax inspiration multiple times, because he himself started in the ruby community

Having written Elixir every day for the last 5 or 6 years, and Ruby for the 10 years before that I don't think it is.

That is what I was getting at. Having people who came from the Ruby world and some very mild surface level bits is all that's there.

The issue I have with the statement is that it pulls all of the negative connotations that some people have with Ruby onto Elixir...and Elixir is not at all like Ruby.

I have also written Elixir in the last years, after 10 years of Ruby, and the syntactic similarities are obvious to me. Luckily you don't have to take my word for it, as the author of Elixir said multiple times that, while Elixir is not about syntax, its syntax was inspired by Ruby.

It’s hard to say it’s not inspired by Ruby when Jose and many of the core contributors came from the Ruby world.

It’s not at all the same thing as Ruby on Beam though - it’s a very different language, but it does borrow a lot of good ideas from the Ruby ecosystem while improving on them in many ways.

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