[tome]

> it's pretty much impossible to tackle some important domains (e.g. image de/encoding) in Haskell

What do you mean? Image de/encoding is certainly possible in Haskell.

[zetalemur]

Yes, I may have worded that wrong, it's certainly possible. But is it reasonable? By that, I mean can it compete in performance with C/C++/Rust?

[tome]

Ah, not sure! Maybe you're right. But then it doesn't seem separate from your second point: "Also: Idiomatic Rust is already extremely fast, while in Haskell it is non-trivial to implement high-performing code.".

[zetalemur]

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct. :)