[zozbot234]

Python may be "terse and readable" when you're only dealing with very simple scripts, but the advantage quickly disappears in larger programs, where issues of modularization and, yes, correctness become paramount. It's choosing the wrong tradeoff in the first place. Rust makes the opposite choice, a small tradeoff in readability when starting out, in exchange for a long-term gain.

[bigdubs]

Not every project is large, there are plenty of things that don't need the burdens that larger projects place on the code to just get things done and get them done well.