I would argue that Elixir is far closer to being a "JavaScript-like language for concurrent programming" than Go, due to it's dynamic typing and relative freedo

I would argue that Elixir is far closer to being a "JavaScript-like language for concurrent programming" than Go, due to it's dynamic typing and relative freedom it affords in comparison to the others you mentioned (except for Clojure, which is actually quite similar in a lot of ways). Although it is technically a purely functional language, you can almost mutate variables (in reality it is creating a new immutable variable with the same name, which takes precedence) a = 1 # a == 1 a = 2 # a == 2 Concurrency feels very natural: # concurrent numbers = [1,2,3,4,5] doubles = |> numbers |> Enum.map(fn(n) -> Task.async(fn -> n * 2 end) end) |> Enum.map(&Task.await/1) # doubles == [2,4,6,8,10] # consecutive numbers = [1,2,3,4,5] doubles = numbers |> Enum.map(fn(n) -> n * 2 end) # doubles == [2,4,6,8,10]