I would recommend Elixir or Clojure over Scala. In my opinion, Scala and F# suffer from supporting multiple programming paradigms, which means that people tend

I would recommend Elixir or Clojure over Scala. In my opinion, Scala and F# suffer from supporting multiple programming paradigms, which means that people tend to fall back on the procedural or object-oriented programming they know, rather than learning how to do things the right way, functionally speaking. That has been my experience with them, anyway.