I think you will find Elixir itself very similar to Clojure. They are both functional, dynamic languages with immutable data structures. They both use protocols/behaviors to achieve polymorphism in similar ways (e.g. functions working with collections (Clojure) and enumerations (Elixir)).
While there is a superficial syntactical difference I think the most important differentiation is the runtimes, the JVM versus the BEAM. JVM will outperform BEAM with regards to computations, while the BEAM has better support for true immutability and concurrency.
With regards to web development specifically the Elixir community seems to more or less have converged around a framework approach with Phoenix, while Clojure (too me) seems more geared towards a collection of libraries approach, รก la Node.js.
I don't have much experience with Clojure's tooling story, but the tools that come come bundled with Elixir, like Mix (build tool) and ExUnit (testing framework), are very good. Compared to the languages I have experience with (Python, Ruby, JS, Java, C#) Elixir provides the best developer ergonomics out of the box.
While there is a superficial syntactical difference I think the most important differentiation is the runtimes, the JVM versus the BEAM. JVM will outperform BEAM with regards to computations, while the BEAM has better support for true immutability and concurrency.
With regards to web development specifically the Elixir community seems to more or less have converged around a framework approach with Phoenix, while Clojure (too me) seems more geared towards a collection of libraries approach, รก la Node.js.
I don't have much experience with Clojure's tooling story, but the tools that come come bundled with Elixir, like Mix (build tool) and ExUnit (testing framework), are very good. Compared to the languages I have experience with (Python, Ruby, JS, Java, C#) Elixir provides the best developer ergonomics out of the box.