I learned cobol and fortran on an IBM mainframe that required punch cards and every time you hit a key on the keyboard you thought it might eat some of your fingers.
My opinion is that learning the programming concepts and terms is much more important than learning a specific language at the point you describe. Yes, learn something you think you will use even for fun.... and avoid pascal like it has covid.
But seriously, Information Systems & Technology has a long-term cancer that is stiffing advancement. That cancer has spread into education and business in general. The problem is that no matter what you learn to use or do or create today, someone will decide for you that that there is a better & different way that will eventually obsolete what you have learned. They will claim it is to make everything better, but the fact is it will make them richer.
There are entire industries that reap huge profits for every major change. New books to be written, new classes to be taught, new required courses for students, new hardware to design, build, sell, and on and on. This goes hand in hand with the disposable society we are creating where nothing is repaired. Just toss it in the trash.
Making things with ASICS means you can force people to buy new things. Could Intel design sockets that don't need to be redesigned every two years? Sure, but then they would not sell as many motherboards. They learned this decades ago; there are profits in 'upgrades'.
Instead of concentrating engineering on improving a time tested go instead for creating new higher cost equipment.
ok, I am old and bitter
I am not saying it is all bad, really. I am saying that if profit was not such a driver of the tech, the tech would be improved. Imagin if NASA or ESA was only doing what was the most profitable thing. Would there be an international space station? More likely so many communications satellites they would block out the sun. Would CERN even exist?
as an old person, all I can say is good luck.