I didn't mean the designers of Rust. I meant the author of the article did not consider a Haskell like syntax. I completely understand the reasons for Rust dev

I didn't mean the designers of Rust. I meant the author of the article did not consider a Haskell like syntax. I completely understand the reasons for Rust devs targeting a C like syntax. Rust had already blown its novelty budget on the borrow checker semantics.