IMO what killed Haskell was weird syntax, and the lack of examples of practical problems that are solved in Haskell. No matter which tutorial you look at, it'd

IMO what killed Haskell was weird syntax, and the lack of examples of practical problems that are solved in Haskell. No matter which tutorial you look at, it'd be this impenetrable high brow solution to some really trivial problems that do not exist in the real world. Spherical cow in a vacuum, if you will. If you wanted to learn by example, there, by and large, wasn't an example to learn from. There still isn't. Epic fail. Rust is in no danger of that. Lots of practical problems are being solved in Rust. Lots of great examples are available. And while syntax around borrow/reference annotations can be difficult to grasp, the rest of the syntax is not too bizarre and is largely conformant to what people are used to.