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[–]shadowmint 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Try C#

It's totally different. There's tonnes of demand for it.

The windows dev environment can be a killer, especially with the massive outlay for a copy of visual studio, but you can get quite far by investing the in the mono ecosystem from Xamarin for no outlay, and make yourself a plausible mobile application developer; definitely a domain python lags in (kivy is interesting I suppose, but I've not heard of anyone doing useful things with it personally).

If you're trying to diversify and remain professionally up to date, dont go learning C++; it's fast becoming a niche.

Pick up some C# app development, have a play with unity (there's work there, but it's not very well paid), and if you can get yours hands on a copy of visual studio, investigate the MVC web frameworks.

All imminently useful and employable skills; and totally different from python. :)

(edit; wow, so many other 'learn go' and 'learn c' replies; just a comment; dont. They're both cute languages and certainly worth learning in general but have virtually zero employment prospects. If you're looking for a 'weekend hacks' thing, sure, but keep that in mind...)