You might be more interested in switching to a language that is more similar to Python but has similar benefits to Rust, like Nim. The learning curve won't be as bad and you'll get fast and portable compiled binaries.
I thought the reason why "Python is 2nd best" isn't primarily its syntax, but the libraries which are available to use (and big enough communities using them).
e.g. with Python you can find libraries (and decent tutorials/examples) for: a small or big web framework, computer-vision, data-science / reproducible science, machine-learning, natural language processing, web-scraping or website testing.
