Ask HN: How can I become a different type of developer?

Hi all.

I feel typecast. For my entire career I've been in C++ roles. In the course of this I have dabbled with other languages/technologies but not enough.

I see jobs with "must have x years experience with Java/C#" and I really think I could do it, but will I get screened out at CV time?

I'm learning C# in my spare time but how do I move from being typecast? Thanks

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I was a full time Python dev but the complexity of the work required wasn’t interesting enough for me. I wanted to move into web dev. So in 2014 I sat down and wrote an FTP/SFTP client in 100% Javascript (a plug-in for an editor). It impressed enough people that I eventually moved into a web dev role. If you write something that seems involved/complex enough, people will credit you as being capable in that language.

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