It's a love/hate world
There are three stages you go through when learning a computer language.
- You hate it. The learning curve is too steep, you simply can't get your head around it, and you want to scream.
- You love it. It makes all your problems easier, and you couldn't ever imagine using any other language.
- You hate it. You've had to personally, unavoidably deal with the dark, secret corners that you wish you could purge from your memory. You can't envision why something so gnarly could ever become so popular. You wish you could use some other language, one with clean design.
Until you hate a language by going through all three steps (and I mean from personal experience, not from memes going around), you don't really know it at all. How many languages can you say that about?