Even though I had previously learned some rudimentary C, C++, and Java, I really came-of-age with Python. Now, having written (and maintained) nontrivial code bases in statically typed languages including D and Rust (and dabbling in others with contributions in C, OCaml, etc.), I am never going back — except perhaps in a few cases when a library like PyTorch or Pandas has no good substitute.

(edit: corrected "Linda's" to "Pandas" heh, mobile kbd)