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If OCaml piques your interest, and if you have any interest in front-end web development I also recommend you check out ReScript (formerly ReasonML). ReScript is essentially "Functional JavaScript", similar to Elm. It’s built on top of the OCaml compiler and is similar in syntax and semantics (ReasonML started out as an alternative syntax for OCaml but ReScript seems to be trying to cut that association). I’m building a complex project in ReScript right now and really enjoying it.
For promises, there's a proposal plus implementation with improvements that should be upstreamed soon. JS interop is actually pretty good, if you find the embedding syntax too ugly you can for the most part keep .js files and .res files and they'll work together.
I'd suggest you consider Common Lisp as well. sbcl is a high-performance actively maintained implementation of Common Lisp.
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