[Florin_Andrei]

> I cut my teeth on NeXTSTEP, SunOS 4, and Slackware Linux

That's the real reason. Everything else is rationalization added later.

(Don't get me wrong, I've also started on Slackware. But sometimes you need to break old habits to learn something new.)

[xenophonf]

Well, I won't pretend to be unbiased, but don't worry - I'm on good terms with a wide variety of operating systems and O/S distributions. ;)

[felixgallo]

by this logic, everyone should move all software to node.js, and any complaints are rationalization, because it's newer than C.