Julia is actually more inspired by Matlab, R, Lua and Fortran in terms of syntax. In fact you can copy-paste a lot of Matlab code straight into your Julia editor. I have done that on occassion.

Translating Matlab code to Python is more work.

I don't think idented blocks is a good fit for Julia. We do a lot of REPL programming which works poorly with significant whitespace: https://medium.com/star-gazers/pythons-significant-whitespace-problems-995fd6c17fd4