[dstone]

Fascinating. I'm going through sort of the same thing myself. I'm writing ASP.NET MVC and C# at work. I like C#. I think ASP.NET MVC is a good framework.

That being said, I've been doing .NET stuff for a good 9 years now (2001, when the first public beta was released). I'm kind of tired of it. I don't feel I'm learning a whole lot of new stuff and it doesn't excite me anymore. I've been dabbling in Ruby and Rails recently and playing with node.js. This stuff is interesting.

Good luck with your journey.

[daviding]

Thanks. It's more the case I have the opportunity, as I'm in start-up mode again. However hard I tried to lay out a balanced case on my thought process I still expected a bit of a 'Why does he hate Microsoft?' reactions.

I'm living in a house Microsoft helped pay for, and as others have commented, the tools aren't really everything. I can enjoy ruby or python or anything else as I see the same patterns in them all.

In short, we live in interesting times and it's fun to explore if you get the chance.