<story><title>Clojure 2015 Year in Review</title><url>http://stuartsierra.com/2015/12/31/clojure-2015-year-in-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>This year, Clojure cemented itself as my favorite programming language, and I felt glad to be able to use it daily for my work, as it does take so much effort off the developer for little things, allowing one to concentrate more on big things.&lt;p&gt;However, it was also the year I learned that, while Clojure, as a dynamic typed language running on a VM, is the best of that class of languages, static system languages are still irreplaceable for so many other things. This was the year I realized that one language does not fit all, and that it is okay to have more than one favorite language. (And in my case, it is Clojure and C++ that I am now using equally, and with equal enjoyment, and for entirely different reasons).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>modarts</author><text>Clojure is one of the most addictive languages I&amp;#x27;ve ever worked in.  I can see why so many people pick it up as something to build hobby projects with, it&amp;#x27;s just so damn fun to write.</text></comment>
<story><title>Clojure 2015 Year in Review</title><url>http://stuartsierra.com/2015/12/31/clojure-2015-year-in-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>This year, Clojure cemented itself as my favorite programming language, and I felt glad to be able to use it daily for my work, as it does take so much effort off the developer for little things, allowing one to concentrate more on big things.&lt;p&gt;However, it was also the year I learned that, while Clojure, as a dynamic typed language running on a VM, is the best of that class of languages, static system languages are still irreplaceable for so many other things. This was the year I realized that one language does not fit all, and that it is okay to have more than one favorite language. (And in my case, it is Clojure and C++ that I am now using equally, and with equal enjoyment, and for entirely different reasons).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s_kilk</author><text>&amp;gt; This year, Clojure cemented itself as my favorite programming language...&lt;p&gt;Same. I&amp;#x27;ve been playing with it for years, but I feel 2015 was the year Clojure(script) finally &amp;quot;got there&amp;quot;, and is definitely here to stay.</text></comment>