There's a lot more to learn about the runtime, frameworks and tools of a language than there is syntax That is true but on the other hand, vast swathes of comm

There's a lot more to learn about the runtime, frameworks and tools of a language than there is syntax That is true but on the other hand, vast swathes of commercial work boils down to, use a language ultimately derived from ALGOL to process data structures that were in textbooks in the '70s. All the libraries are ultimately written by people, and people who themselves have used other languages, so variations are pretty minor. The function you need to connect to a DB might be different but I bet the parameters you pass to it are in the order of username then password, in any language. Even Ruby, whose community delights in obscure, meaningless names, has patterns in common with everyone else...