> Clojurescript is the browser language I always
> wanted. JS seems like such a hack.
You're getting downvoted for reading into someone's enthusiastic personal endorsement and then ending it with the tiring "Tell me something good about <thing I refuse to read or understand on my own time but I'll partake in discussion anyways>...".
Start with Rob Pike's "Go Concurrency Patterns" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs)