I read this article yesterday because I am having a language choice issue, between Ruby and Clojure.<p>I am in my (almost) mid 60s, and except for being on retainer for advice I don&#x27;t really accept consulting work anymore. I have a <i></i>long<i></i> list of projects that I want to do, mostly open source, and settling on one language for a few years would make things easier.<p>Clojure and Ruby both support DSL development very well which is important to me and both play very well with Java (via JRuby). I am starting to ask myself though if I wouldn&#x27;t just be better off with Java 8, even without good support for writing DSLs. I have mostly stopped using Haskell and Scala.<p>When I was much younger I totally enjoyed learning and using many programming languages but as I get older I feel more like just getting stuff done, especially since I dedicate much less time now to technical pursuits. So in a sense I am facing roughly the same type of decision as the Metabase people.