Ask HN: Which programming languages(s) should I focus on to get a job?

the one that you like the most...

What line of work are you interested in?

The one that interests you the most. Look at the language, the types of jobs, etc. Find what you want to do, then learn the language to do that.

Learning languages is easy once you get past the first one. So pick stuff that you want to do, so you'll stay interested.

It might just be that lack of bootcamps correlates with the degree to which a location is not a tech-hub. The reason Ruby on Rails and Node are popular is because they're used in many industries to get work done with reasonable productivity. Rails is more than a decade old and NodeJS nearly eight, both are relatively mature and often chosen on technical merit.

For employment, it probably makes sense to learn whatever is commonly wanted when hiring entry level programmers...I mean there might be local companies writing code in C, but they would probably be less likely to hire someone at entry level and when doing so might be more likely to want a formal credential over self-teaching.

Anyway, I think programming is more about higher level abstractions than any particular language and it probably makes less difference what a person picks than picking something and writing code regularly makes.

Good luck.

What kind of job do you want? "Web development" is a hugely broad area. Personally I'd pick a relatively well-known one at random, but these days, I'd point people at modern JavaScript.

That said, "knowing" the language is only a tiny part of the battle.