[dralley]

With all due respect I question how much experience you actually have with Rust. It's nowhere close to being as difficult a language as you describe.

Rust got popular in part because it made systems programming easier, simpler and more fool-proof than the existing alternatives (C, C++) for those coming from languages like Python, Ruby and Java. As someone whose primary experience is in Python, I never found Rust abnormally difficult to pick up, whereas Haskell is (and remains) entirely alien to me. Sure, lifetimes can get messy, but it's much easier to have the compiler hit me on the head when I'm doing something dumb than to spend 2 days figuring out how to use Valgrind and the other half-dozen different static analyzers. I don't need to devote 100% of my mental effort to be able to write reliable code that's not going to blow up later in subtle ways.

[zanellato19]

I feel crazy when I read comments like that about Rust. C is much, much harder than Rust. C is absolutely crazy difficult. Fairly simple to learn, but incredibly hard to actually write correctly. Rust is much, much easier. The learning curve isn't that hard. One week and you can be fairly productive with it.