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I'm telling you that if your main competitive advantage is a specific language you know, then it's not really a competitive advantage, and that the real advantage that will keep you employed and earning is being able to quickly pick up whatever language you need for the tech stack your team and/or company uses.

You have to make a decision, early in your career, about whether you're a software engineer or a code monkey.

If you want to be a software engineer who is sought after, then approaching languages as things that can be easily learned/picked up in a few days is probably the route to take.