There's been a decision at $WORK to move things to python so I've been (reluctantly) picking the minimal amount I know back up and there are some "nice" things in their ecosystem. I've never really used PDL but pandas is pretty handy for CSV/spreadsheet-y stuff, not to mention polars which peps things up with rust under the hood while being mostly interoperable where not a direct drop-in replacement. The language is still bletcherous, but thanks to hylang you can write in a lisp and hide some of the warts. We're stuck at 3.9 for $REASONS but I'm interested what things look like when we eventually catch up to 3.13.