I enjoy Elixir a lot but it feels like a tool designed for a whole different purpose. I don’t really know what that purpose it. It’s possible that my brain is just not well organized for the way elixir is laid out, but Crystal is so fluid with my brain.
You compare to rather new, and "geared to learners", languages to some old and know-to-be-arcane languages.
I'd be curious what you think of, for instance, Kotlin and Elm.