[andrewdubinsky]

If you want to avoid web development, then choose to focus on languages that are rarely (if ever) used for that purpose.

I'd recommend you focus on C/C++. It will provide a great foundational knowledge that you can use in almost every other part of programming. Also, from what I have heard, it's actually hard to recruit junior developers in C/C++.

[jamil7]

I’d second this, there’s also a whole lot of cool products written in C/C++ that people tend to overlook. A lot of audio related software if you’re interested in music production.

[r-io]

Also Rust, which said to be competitor for C/C++ in terms of speed and safety.

[gaws]

> I'd recommend you focus on C/C++

This is too broad. C and C++ are different beasts.

[thijsvandien]

You might end up working on the browser itself. ;)