I haven't tried Elixir yet, so I can't really compare on your points, but a couple notes: You can use https://github.com/scala/async https://github.com/scala/a

I haven't tried Elixir yet, so I can't really compare on your points, but a couple notes: You can use https://github.com/scala/async https://github.com/scala/async for async/await in Scala. It's super easy. Also, you can pattern match function parameters in Scal using PartialFunction `case` syntax.