Unfortunately, a lot of people appear to hate Erlang's syntax to the point that it's a barrier to adoption - or Elixir never would've picked up at all. I don't understand it myself, but there we have it.
I've seen this argument about the syntax countless times and during my first looks at Erlang code I couldn't understand much of it, but after sitting down and deciding to learn it it's an extremely simple syntax. The hard/long thing to fully understand is truly OTP.
