You don't need to be particularly talented or passionate to write in a programming language, just like to you don't need to be particularly talented or passiona

You don't need to be particularly talented or passionate to write in a programming language, just like to you don't need to be particularly talented or passionate to write in a natural language, or speak for that matter. But you do need something to say, and what you have to say usually has a lot to do with talent and passion. (In darker moments I sometimes wish it wasn't so though: Wouldn't it be great if people with nothing meaningful to say simply weren't capable of speech or writing? ;P)