[bryal]

For me it's been the opposite. Rust was the first programming language I learned back in 2014, and it's what I've mainly been using until recently. Rust is still my go-to for situations where performance is key, but my most used language today has become Haskell.

Rust is very nice, but when you've used it for long enough you start noticing the warts. I especially miss Higher Kinded Types from Haskell, and I'm constantly reminded of the lack of Functor and Monad etc. At some point I simply realized that for most applications, the generally lower performance of Haskell and the GC is really not a problem at all. I mean, it's not like it's Python slow—it's just a bit slower than C/Rust. The more advanced type system of Haskell is just so nice, that I feel it's worth it.