yes i've noticed this as well. they all stem from a heterodoxical corner of the programming community who are obsessed about performance. this isn't a bad thing, considering how slow modern software is! but this group believes performance is a memory issue, which is true for some software but not all. i think these languages can be really useful for realtime applications like gaming where allocation has a real cost, but the so-called "pointer jungles" are probably not the reason why microsoft teams takes a trillion cpu instructions to boot.