Comment by haskman

I gave a talk that goes more into what makes imperative programming better with Haskell compared to traditional imperative languages. https://speakerdeck.com/ajnsit/supercharged-imperative-progr...

In a nutshell, first class effects and built in set of patterns for composing them get rid of boilerplate code. Combine that with type safety and you can churn out relatively bug free code very fast.