When you're learning to program, the language fights you the most when you're trying to ask the simplest questions.

Python gets out of the way. The syntax reads like the thought you were trying to write down. That sounds small until you realise how much energy is freed up to actually focus on the problem.

Years later, I still reach for Python first when I want to *think* about a problem — and I still reach for FastAPI when I want to ship the answer.