Clojure vs. Kotlin vs. Elixir which has the brightest future?

If Google Trends is to be believed, it looks like Kotlin is pulling ahead world wide. If you look only at the US though, interest is much more neck and neck.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0pl075p,%2...

At the end of the day, your choice of language should come down to matching the language's strengths with what you are actually trying to develop.

Cobol.

It will still be used in prod when these 3 languages will have disappeared.

Probably Kotlin but Clojure is the beauty amongst them.

Kotlin. I've seen first hand an entire Java shop switch to Kotlin and love it. That's a powerful thing.

Clojure being a Lisp has the ability to adapt to whatever future throws at it. Whatever you could do in any other language (in the same domain), Clojure debatably would do it better.

You didn't ask, but Scala has by far the most commercial usage , far ahead of the three mentioned. It's quite different than Clojure and Elixir, but anything you can do in Kotlin you can do in Scala, and it will look and feel the same.

Lots of Scala shops stick to that style of Scala.

Learn Kotlin, and most of your knowledge can be applied to Java programming, which will give you bread and butter for a long time, even if Kotlin will not catch up.

Kotlin due to Google's backing and being Android's first class citizen?