That's the best way to describe it. The concurrency model and metaprogramming bits mean that effortless to make cool stuff with it. And it turns out that's way more fun that wrestling with the jvm or other high friction tools.
There's a lot of neat stuff in Elixir, and the community is great too. I honestly it may be the first functional language that becomes widely used. Hopefully.
I think it's the best language out there-- the power of erlang and OTP and the fun of, well, elixir. It's more fun than Ruby and Python.