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Ha, I just did the same thing. It's definitely a bigger shift than I expected!

I think the biggest difference so far is the quality of dev tooling. Python's native type system has enabled a lot of really good editor functionality. Ruby has Sorbet, which seems good, but it's _much_ slower and more cumbersome. After a save to fix a red squiggly line, there's a 5 second delay before the typechecker / linter figures out the code has updated, run, and updated errors in-editor (note: this could be due to the size of the repo, but it's still a pretty tough experience)

In the company codebase it's pretty well set up and VSCode come pre-configured. But yesterday I tried setting up a little ruby project on my personal machine and couldn't figure out the combination of extensions to make basic auto-complete and jump-to-definition functionality work at all. To their credit, Microsoft has made Python development incredibly straightforward by giving a One Best Way To Do It and making sure there's good LSP support.

Python has its warts for sure, but I've grown to really appreciate the language and its ecosystem.