Comment by maleldil

I feel like part of the problem is Haskell's extremism towards purity and immutability. I find some code easier to express with procedural/mutable loops than recursion, and I believe the vast majority of programmers. I think that one thing that makes Rust so successful is its capable type of system and use of many functional idioms, but you can use loops and mutability when it's more comfortable. And of course, the borrow checker to ensure that such mutability is sound.