The more TypeScript I write, the less I like Python. In a recent project that involved pulling some data from Hive via Pandas dataframes and merging it with dat

The more TypeScript I write, the less I like Python. In a recent project that involved pulling some data from Hive via Pandas dataframes and merging it with data from a JSON REST API, then doing some calculations and stuffing that data into a different JSON REST API (with a totally different shape to the data), I kept running into little edge cases that Python forces you to handle explicitly vs Javascript just doing what you want. It also annoys me to an irrational degree that Python has "dicts" and not objects, "lists" and not arrays, KeyError everywhere, error looking up dict keys as ints (you can only look them up by str with no implicit type conversion), can't say "dict.keyname", have to do dict['keyname'] or usually dict.get('keyname') and handle things like dicts within dicts where you're not sure if keys exist even more verbosely, etc example of something annoying that came up: foo = [1,2,3] bar = {'1': 1, '2': 2, '3': 3} for i in foo: print(bar.get(i)) What does it output? None x3. In order to get it to do the thing, I did something like this: foo = [1,2,3] bar = {'1': 1, '2': 2, '3': 3} for i in foo: str_i = str(i) # even more fun when this throws print(bar.get(str_i)) I use python because most of my coworkers understand it and it has wide library + runtime support where I work, but it's definitely not my favorite thing to work with. Dynamic typing where types still matter and where the language is picky about implicit type conversions kind of sucks. I also couldn't do: foo = [1,2,3] bar = {'1': 1, '2': 2, '3': 3} for str(i) in foo: print(bar.get(i)) Which was also eyeroll. Like, I get it, but...c'mon. Working with Pandas is also more or less learning another language, with the insanity that is df.T.whatever and df.loc[]: df.loc[df['shield'] > 6, ['max_speed']] I'm sure that someone will comment about how I'm an idiot and there's a much better way to do it, but given PEP20: There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. I guess I'm not Dutch enough.