A great writeup! A lot of the Rust community seems to have come from the Ruby side of things (with writings such as "Rust for Rubyists" by Steve Klabnik), although I feel that Rust and Python share many ideas that Ruby does not concern itself with.
I particularly like the section about string handling. There is a reason that Rust strings are hard, and I will make sure to point to that section whenever mentioned.
Throughout my experiences with both Python and Rust, I am able to use the same ideas to accomplish tasks. The Zen of Python fits both languages in my opinion also.
I think that they are both very pragmatic languages, they are not trying to be expressive in the way that Ruby does, or try to write the coolest one liner, writing Rust or Python is about writing good code.
At least in my opinion. I think both languages complement each other extremely well, and I hope to see more of the two of them meshing in the future.
Im not sure if I actually said anything here... sorry im tired. What I meant to say is that I feel that idiomatic Python can look a lot like idiomatic Rust, and that they can complement each other in code by using Rust instead of C.
I particularly like the section about string handling. There is a reason that Rust strings are hard, and I will make sure to point to that section whenever mentioned.