I have been using Python in anger for just about anything I could get away with since the year 2000. Shunning Java if I could help it, later the same with .NET

I have been using Python in anger for just about anything I could get away with since the year 2000. Shunning Java if I could help it, later the same with .NET etc. Feeling mighty snug with duck typing, using Python as sort of my Lisp substitute. (I managed to inflict Lisp on my colleagues once, but it was not a match made in heaven.) So, recently I was tasked to fix a (pretty small) codebase in VB.net. It was not a pretty code, but not awful either. I went through it, cleaned up as I saw fit. (I had a lot of freedom to play around, since the code was basically in undead state. No one was going to come after me and say "why did you change so much" or anything like that.) And I discovered some things. Visual Studio is magically good. (Take it for what it is, I am sure you have some fav IDE. As a Unix neckbeard, VS is unicorn magic.) VB.net is nice. Auto variables, but still static typing. The full .NET toolset and datatypes, iterators etc. The fluffiness of the syntax doesn't matter when the IDE is closing your blocks for you etc. Also VB.net is easy - it feels a bit like I imagine Python with types. So, long story short - getting helped by the static types so many types, it felt downright awkward going back to Python for other projects. :-/ I am using MyPy now, which add some static typing as annotations, but I wonder if I'm just prolonging my stay in a local optimum. I should probably brake free from the stranglehold Python holds me in. But where do I go? I'm not a native Windows citizen. IntelliJ looks great, but super complicated. Might try that and the Java world. Or Rust? It's a big world and I'm not getting any younger.