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Programmers in general today have significant amounts of freedom to choose the toolchain, languages, libraries, and frameworks they use. That wasn't historically always true, especially because the available choices have been growing exponentially for the past 50 years. Many of us are using that freedom to put our efforts into innovating and pioneering this field to make programming easier, safer, quicker, more reliable, and in general trying to improve every possible aspect of it. I suspect the main motivation is that we just love solving problems, which is why we're still programmers to this day, but another and probably less publicly acceptable motivation is that it helps us get our job done quicker, which in turn theoretically allows us to make more money in the same amount of time, which is a no-brainer.