Recommend me a language

I used VB 6 a while ago before I started learning some real languages. However, I still can't get over how much easier it was to make GUI applications in VB, despite how much the language itself sucked. Window toolkits for other languages are horrible to use and rarely come with a real visual editor - Tk sucks ass, Swing sucks ass, win32 API in C is either a pain in the ass or I can't figure out a good way to do it...

I haven't tried MFC or any .NET shit yet. How the hell do people write real Windows apps? Should I try something else?

Constraints aren't always useful, and unavoidable constarints are often a pain in the ass. You don't want to shoot your foot when programming. I find particularly disturbing how Java bitches when you assign 0 to a short. Holy fuck.

I think flexibility and expressivity are more important than being full of constraints if you're a good coder. And if one must cope with constraints, at least I want a "SHUT THE FUCK UP I KNOW LOL" per call switch to silent all exceptions and system warnings, like PHP's @ .