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I can't code in anything, and I'm using Emacs since a couple of years, know some basic Elisp, and have recently started doing Common Lisp. Still baby steps, but it's really very fun, and I don't find it so hard.

Doing the book "Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" at the moment, it's lovely.

So that's all I wanted to say - there's no courage required. Just doing. Emacs is a joy, and there's no rush on these things.