My programming journey overlaps with yours. I started using BASIC on the local college computer via a Teletype. Then I had a Beeb that was a lot of fun. At various jobs I used other BASICs, Pascal, C++, DBase, Oracle, C#, Magic (!) and now it's mostly Python that I also use for my own projects. We've seen a lot of changes.
I was just writing about Pascal! I didn't really use it until my friend Colin really advocated for Delphi. He'd learned Pascal at university.
Now I am like you, mostly using Python for my own stuff, but I have been drawn back into PHP recently (Laravel and WordPress), and have to do some Node/JavaScript.
I'm looking at Zig after trying Go and Rust, but I think C and Python will dominate my personal projects for a long time yet :)
I was sure I must have done a post like this before, but can't find it. I have done some courses for other languages, but not really used them. Python is fine for my messing around with Hive stuff. I've just never got into doing web programming.
Maybe when I retire I'll find time to experiment more.
I got into the web in 1994 and never left, it has been the majority of my programming ever since :)
Even the COBOL and Oracle I did I think prepared me for it when you consider how "batch" oriented web interactions are in the backend.
I've worked on a lot of back office apps and now on stuff for testing hardware. Anything public facing may need to be more polished and then there's all the security issues. I just like hacking code.
So it's python for the backoffice and hardware testing stuff too?
A thing I love about programming is it means so many different things to different people. My buddy John coded software drivers for things like hard drives etc for a while, and another buddy Joe works on PLC for oil and gas machinery - it is amazing all the different niches that exist :)
The office stuff was various languages including C# on Oracle back end. The Python testing systems replace old apps written in Tcl. It's hard to find people who know that and Python can do the job. I know a lot of legacy systems never get replaced so people who know languages like Cobol can still find work. Not that I ever did Cobol.
Programming is about solving problems and I enjoy that.