There is another reason. Disillusionment. After programming microprocessors where every single instruction mattered for performance and space, you realize that all modern languages are like baby speak and spells: Press a button and things happen for you. Language features that do everything for you (what no need to track memory usage or null pointers??), and compilers that create a 90Mb application that I can code in 3K (that's K) on a 680x0 processor. This isn't programming, it's simply a textual version of lego.