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Abhinav Kulshreshtha • Edited

I will drop a link to another comment I posted on another post similar to this. It has some more explanation. dev.to/abhinav1217/comment/1j8kb

tldr;
You would want to have a good understanding on at least one language on all of following topics

  1. Strict Structured Language preferably compiled and OOP, To gain understanding of large project architecture and maintenance ( Java, C#, etc)

  2. Scripting Language to automate daily and tiny tasks with simple command line scripts ( Python, JS, Bash scripts )

  3. SQL . Even if you end up using nosql solution like firebase, having understanding of database relations is important.

  4. HTML+CSS+JS ( Not a Framework but pure languages ) because web is important.