[opaque]

> working with what I still think is one of, if not the, best language ever.

Really? Mathematica is amazing and uncontested for symbolic algebra, but writing anything more than a notebook/paper is a nightmare. In built stuff is good, but functions you have to define yourself instantly become an incomprehensible mess of parentheses. Leaving aside the fact that it's a propriety language and the many flaws of its eponymous founder.

I long for the day SymPy or similar gets good enough that we can dispense with it.

[limeblack]

I would agree the language can be confusing but they language isn't exactly propriety. There are open source implementations of it like mathics.net