I didn't want to end up "stuck" knowing only .Net like so many of my co-workers. I'm in the same boat. It's a shame too, in my mind at least, because I really

I didn't want to end up "stuck" knowing only .Net like so many of my co-workers. I'm in the same boat. It's a shame too, in my mind at least, because I really do enjoy working with the better parts of the platform (MVC, WCF, C# 4, VS 2010, etc). I'm currently working in a .Net shop and the work is not terrible by any means (it's a fairly large scale web application used by school districts), but I'm starting to fall out of love with the MS lock-in and general attitude of the folks I've worked with so far. I'm pretty sure 95%+ of my current and past co-workers have no idea what hacker news is (or even /r/programming for that matter). The general reaction when telling someone about my side projects learning Scala/node/rails/etc on my (gasp) Mac at home is along the lines of "huh?".