which is a shame because I think elixir is probably one of the easiest functional programming languages to learn. most of the libraries use do blocks so you dont' usually think about lambdas unless you're using Enum or List modules and even then, its about as complicated as using reduce or map in javascript. if you know how to use a higher order function, tail recursion and map/reduce/filter, you know enough functional programming to do 99% of day to day elixir work.