The languages I've been meaning to learn, and do something "meaningful" in, are:
I think Rust and C# are the future.
Controversial opinion, but I think Python, Java, VB, and others will become legacy languages. They'll be around for 30-60 years, just like Cobol, but I expect things to settle around other languages.
I tried to get into Python, but always found it boring. Ruby was more my speed because it was inspired by Perl and that's the first language I learned. But Python will likely get you more job opportunities.
C# is good. I use Visual Studio on Windows, so I'm not familiar with the tooling in VS Code in Linux, but I've heard good things. .NET is a nice environment to work in, the runtime works on all the OSs, and you can even package it into a self-contained binary with a little finagling.
PHP is a really fun language syntactically and has a surprisingly good built-in library.
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