[lenzm]

I think this is a different dichotomy - declarative vs imperative. Generally, the declarative languages have all the magic implemented in an imperative engine.

[ly3xqhl8g9]

Sure, but the context is very important: you can use Rust to control the DOM from WASM [1] and then you can use Haskell to write a load balancer [2].

[1] https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.html

[2] https://thewagner.net/blog/2019/01/30/load-balancer (off-topic: Rob Pike's Concurrency is not Parallelism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9rvDllKEg)