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Kasey Speakman

I would not discount the developer skills you have already learned by doing FoxPro. You might feel like it doesn't count because it is vendor-specific, but it does. The essential skills are still breaking down a problem and building it up from pieces. The essential way to do that in any language is still through a combination of branching, looping, and sequential instructions. Other platforms use the same core ideas, but different building materials. Learning those new materials only takes practice.

I saw a few (remote) job posting on stack overflow that stated the language you knew didn't matter as long as you could pickup whatever they use. Finding an exact fit is always difficult. I wish you the best of luck!