Absolutely, I need to learn about Kotlik, it almost looks like Scala at the first glance. I agree with you about languages and targeting 10+ years with it. Sta

Absolutely, I need to learn about Kotlik, it almost looks like Scala at the first glance. I agree with you about languages and targeting 10+ years with it. Stability is worth more than anything to me, out of the box performance also important (this tend to be great for older languages) not to mention the std library quality. For these reasons Java is an excellent choice. Clojure came to me as a total surprise, since I haven't studied CS and because I was surrounded with Perl/Java engineers for a long time I haven't heard about Lisp till 2011. It changed my approach to software engineering a lot. It is absolutely eye opening, mind blowing and all that jazz.