Companies, that are not hip, but have large codebases and large set of complex business-procedures, that takes long time to grok...

Not every development shop in the world is constantly racing towards the newest stack for "venture-fueled cat food webshops".

Plenti of those steady businesses with long views (at least here in Europe).

I work a place (as an contractor) where the language is from the early 1980s and quite rare...

And though it is not hard to learn it takes a while to feel comfortable in it, hence they like long engagements... (I have been working there for 5+ years now, as a part-time contractor).

> Companies, that are not hip, but have large codebases and large set of complex business-procedures, that takes long time to grok...

Like Nokia with its backend hardware for mobile networks? Or Ericsson? Or Volvo? Or virtually any bank? It's not like they balk at programmers that changed jobs every two or three years and don't hire them in bulk.

> Plenti of those steady businesses with long views (at least here in Europe).

I don't think you've seen as an employee that many big companies, even here in Europe.

> (I have been working there for 5+ years now, as a part-time contractor).

And I am supposed to be amazed or what? 5 years is not that long, I've been there myself and I've seen good programmers with modern skills that had much longer relationships with their company.