I would recommend python and lower level language C because of easier syntax and simple oops approach. Moreover, I do a lot of boinformatics programming, but I don’t use any of the “Bio*” projects, as they never seem to have much that is of use to me, and what little is useful to me is easier for me to code myself than to install any Bio* project and deal with its idiosyncracies.
Python is beating all others https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-in-demand-skills-for-data-scientists-4a4a8db896db
These are several journals I follow. One can see that Nature journal cover a very large spectra of audiences. Apart from that, I do like browsing
there are other interesting journals:
Nucleic Acid Research
PLOS Computational Biology
Nature methods
G3
Genome Annoucement
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Briefings in Bioinformatics