First of all the statistics shows this kind of violence is committed by (true) females drastically less often.

Second, this isn't about being mentally ill, healthy men do risky shit to potentially increase the chances of reaching some state that would increase probability of their genes passing to the next generation. Being a prominent programming language creator or a game developer is one of these states. Humans are sexually dimorphic, and that includes psychology. Women genes have a different strategy. This isn't some deviant behavior. Killing your mother on the other hand is, so you are intentionally confusing the phenomena.