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The short answer is you want to learn a language that helps you achieve your short-term goals and that ideally positions you to achieve your long term goals. Focus more on the goal, and select a popular tool (so you get support) that has a good chance of solving your business problem. To give some perspective, in a 22 year career, I started out learning Visual Basic, C++, SQL, Java, and databases because those were “hot at the time”, and it was fairly easy to get jobs building out apps with these kind of technologies. As the web started to gain momentum, I found that again I chased short term goals of doing web development by working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After business school, I started to refocus on longer term opportunities. I learned about predictive models, R, Python, Docker, Hadoop, Spark and TensorFlow and applied all of that to data science and machine learning engineering. These days, I am building a business that teaches people what I have learned over the years with current technology. So here, I have come full circle and have done a lot of React, Node, and Tailwind work to build a website (https://www.whiteowleducation.com) that teaches people how to data visualizations using Python, C++, and Unreal Engine. Hope this helps. |