Additionally, given its ML influence, too many people enjoy doing Haskell level FP programming in Rust, which puts off those not yet skilled in the FP arts.
Also the borrow checker is the Rust version of Haskell burrito blogs with monads, it is hard to get how to design with it in mind, and when one gets it, it isn't that easy to explain to others still trying to figure it out.
Hence why from the outside people get this opinion over Rust.
Naturally those of us with experience in compilers, type systems theory and such, see it differently, we are at another level of understanding.
