What you're feeling is nervousness at learning something new. It's big and scary and overwhelming, yes... but if it's not scary or hard you're probably not lear

What you're feeling is nervousness at learning something new. It's big and scary and overwhelming, yes... but if it's not scary or hard you're probably not learning! What you need to do is learn how to learn just enough to get things done. Then you can learn new technologies and be OK with hitting the point of "oh shit now what", because you know that you can make it through. I haven't written any Ruby, nor do I know, but I was able to submit patches to a Ruby project (Sinatra) and package up some Ruby software. So yes, you'll have to hit Java eventually. And when you do it'll be scary. But that's OK, because that means you're learning. More about scariness in learning here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/04/17/learning-without-a-mentor/ https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/04/17/learning-without-a-m...