@matdevdug Rust really shines in situations where you need both speed and maintainability. If you need to pretty regularly rewrite portions of a code base refactoring is super easy.
Your time estimate feels about right for my experience as well, but where you'll see value is later refactoring.
If you're not likely to refactor or make regular changes, python is definitely going to be more time effective long term. Python really shines with its libraries and speed of writing.