Many of the slavic romanizations have largely centralised on strict roman phonetics. There are still exceptions, but many of them can be sounded out with a bit of learning.
No jokes: pick a language that is in the market, but has a different design philosophy than your background.
Your background includes compiled static, and loose scripting, with strong library tooling, so you have diversity there, so a language in which you have to think differently is the right choice.
I recommend:
Rust if you want something safe but that makes you work differently from java
Go if you want a real mental challenge (the coding approach is very different from java)
Lua if you want really see functional programming as a philosophy
Python if you want scripting, and are tired of the web
Not only is it not landlocked, it separates all of the Atlantic Maritime provinces from the rest of Canada, and governs part of the Great Lake waterways.
I think that the majority of conspiracy theories are asroturfed, even those that actually started as grass roots. The Russians clearly admit that reinforcing propaganda rhat sticks, is a big part of their strategy.