It's a lot like Ruby syntactically and visually but it's super easy to learn and start doing useful stuff in quickly. The combination of functional and declarative programming make for a very nice developer experience.

I can't comment as I've not used scheme but looking at scheme's syntax, elixir is much nicer. It's supposed to take some of its inspiration from Ruby.

The big seller is that it runs on the Erlang VM so you get all the goodies for free: supervisor trees, OTP, processes, even able to call Erlang directly. It is both scriptable and compiled. Not so much suited for high performance computing though as benchmarls will show, but it is interesting to learn and I have gained a lot from exposing myself to functional programming paradigms.

https://elixir-lang.org/