[rsync]

Exactly - I read:

"Why do people choose JavaScript/node.js to write command line apps over traditional languages for that task like python or ruby?"

and was agreeing with the first part of the sentence and then laughed out loud at the end ...

Are we really in a world where ruby is the old school traditionalist way to write unix utilities ?

[exelius]

I was working with Capistrano almost a decade ago when it was called SwitchTower, so yeah -- it is kind of old school considering most "startup" developers are under 30.