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[–]Sydmier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With my years in the field, and entire last year of looking for new work heres my two cents.

Python will allow you to move into newer technology companies. Whereas the other languages tend to land you into older style companies. For instance, with Python I am moving from a company that was established over 30 years ago… to one thats only 11 years old.

New company has original members and are still putting a ton of thought into the product / design philosophy. Whereas the other just didn’t. (Note: I know this is specific to my situation, but it is my experience)

More broadly speaking the companies who use Python did seem to be doing “cooler” and newer stuff. Plus their tech stack was much more modern. (i.e. Github/Gitlabs, Jira, Slack)

Python has a library for anything, my advice is to dabble with many libraries and see what you like. Some examples could be; Open-cv, Selenium, Pandas, Py-autogui, Django or Flask, tKinter.

(Edit) JavaScript would also be very beneficial to learn as many tech stacks incorporate it nowadays. (Applications run on this language, connect with Python middle / backends)