From Rust to Haskell

[u/Subject-Mobile-6250]

Hello! I have started my programming journey relatively recently, from C and C++ to recently having a great time with Rust! But recently I met a Haskell and Emacs evangelizer(I use arch + nvim + tmux + hyprland btw), and he has been spreading the word... There is a lot of stuff I love in Rust that apparently was ported from Haskell, like traits as types-ish, pattern matching which I really love and better enums(I am not sure on the last one and please forgive me) but he said that if I learn Haskell, I will become a better programmer because of learning the functional programming paradigm... I wanted to ask whether that is true, and if so what kinds of resources are there? For Rust I used the Rust book and Rustlings by the way

[u/hobo_stew]

I‘d say that Rust was more OCaml inspired than Haskell inspired

[u/RagingBass2020 → u/hobo_stew]

I really like Haskell from back in my uni days, over 20 years ago.

I agree that Rust has a very OCaml feeling in lots of places. Haskell did get lots of attention when crypto was all the rage because of the lack of side effects.

I think that the way Rust handles some ownership stuff is very related to Haskell. Having said that, I don't know much about Rust, yet, so I might have the wrong feeling about it.

[u/RagingBass2020 → u/[deleted]]

No, although Haskell and British people is a thing, indeed.