[vmchale]

> I do understand the basic rules of the borrow checker

It ends up being doable. I dabbled in ATS, developed Stockholm syndrome, and now Rust ain't too bad.

Higher-order functions are difficult in Rust or with linear/affine types in general. Haven't looked at what Rust does recently.

> Should I avoid using closures all over the place? Should my code look more like C and less like Haskell?

When in Rome do as the Romans :)

Anyway, some fun imperative programming stuff you can do in Rust that is fickle in Haskell (or OCaml/Standard ML).