Not a professional, just wrote some Python. I definitely find Rust difficult to learn. Mutability, variable borrowing, variable lifecycles etc, do I really need

Not a professional, just wrote some Python. I definitely find Rust difficult to learn. Mutability, variable borrowing, variable lifecycles etc, do I really need this? Personally I only want to learn another language rather than Python for performance issues, and C++ is far easier and a lot more intuitive.