The point of a language is to establish communication, the same applies when working with software, you are talking to the underlying instruction manager.

A VM, the Operating System, or the Interpreter, the overall point is to understand how the instructions need to be structured.

It's hard, yes, a lot of paradigms are hard to grasp when you start. Meta programming, reference borrowing or anything else that you might have encountered.

As a programmer, the primary skill you should work on; being able to ignore the fear of reading/writing in another programming language.