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JavaScript.

If you want purely functional, both haskell and clojure do have a good backend community and quite a few good tools.

I'd rather recommend TypeScript

Have they sorted the differences with async/await? I'd be using if it wasn't from the different implementation meaning you need to use typescript to babel.

Sorted already. Transpiles async/await natively.

Ah yeah ofcourse. TypeScript, always.

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