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.

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).