It's his reason for his decision. I don't see any problem with it, he prefers a more mature language/ecosystem (i.e. not cool) so they focus on GTD not trying t

It's his reason for his decision. I don't see any problem with it, he prefers a more mature language/ecosystem (i.e. not cool) so they focus on GTD not trying to be the coolest guys around. He has a longer post on that topic: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/the-magpie-developer.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/the-magpie-develope... As he also noted: There's always more than one way to do it, and just because I chose one particular way doesn't make it the right way – or even a particularly good way. I guess you've other metrics to decide what tools to use, and that's great :)