python

tell me what you know about python, and how to program in it

I'm getting more and more frustrated with Python, which is a shame because it's a nice to use language with a good ecosystem and almost good tooling. 'there should be one way to do that' is not a good design principle for a dynamic language and it results in some of the features (e.g. functional programming) ending up being half-assed because hurr this is not how Guido writes code. on the other hand, the lack of Guido is making everything even worse and the language is straying from its simple, readable roots. the whole := shit could have been avoided by making everything an expression, but I guess it's too big of a change for a point release.

I feel it's time to jump ship, but where to? what good non-verbose language to pick for my personal projects? I like Lisps but they lack the ecosystem, I dabbled a bit in Ruby but it seems that the only thing people care about is Rails which I don't give a fuck about, Perl is just an inconsistent piece of shit and don't even get me started on JS/Node. maybe static languages with type inference are a way to go - but which of them would be good if I'm not interested in academic wankery?