I'm confident you can get into iOS too. Most important thing I ever re-learn over and over is that my brain is most efficient at writing the next line of code.

I'm confident you can get into iOS too. Most important thing I ever re-learn over and over is that my brain is most efficient at writing the next line of code. Get to hello world as fast as possible. If you want an abstraction, likely that abstraction exists and has some minimum implementation. This method of layering abstractions has no end. Latest example I was messing around with Sails knowing nothing about Node. We had one semi-experienced Sails user in the room and within 30min everyone was running Sails and we had created some pages and routes for everyone to screw around with easily. Maybe that's the lesson. Find some other experienced people and one who is experienced in the exact tools. You will generate the same noob problems from multiple angles while having the experienced person to keep the stupid in check. You can find these people. Go to an event where everyone's required to hack something that weekend and put together a pile of engineers. You don't have total control over what you get, but in my case, I got to mess with some Node. It wasn't mind blowing, but I know that it has a strong ecosystem for real-time clients.