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the wild thing is that while there's good reasons to not use one language across your entire software stack from bare metal microcontrollers to web front-end, the one language you can do this with and have it not be an objectively stupid choice is probably rust.

Orual@nonbinary.computer

legit I use (micro)Python a fair bit for rapid prototyping on embedded, especially if I *know* for sure i am going to throw away the prototype or perf just does not matter one bit. if I think the prototype might become production I will often try and write it in rust.

reference counting is wonderful. Rust is not actually a hard language. There are some things it makes you think about, but if you want to write good code that runs fast and is reliable you should already be thinking about them.

None of the challenges in this were down to the Rust language. It was entirely maturity of the framework, the challenges of browsers, and someone not having done the grunt work already like they did in JS. Rust made it, if anything *easier*. weaver.sh/did:plc:yfvw...

weaver.shWriting a Web-based Editor from ScratchAt some point a while back I decided that I was going to write the front end of Weaver in Rust. I'd looked through the various 'fullstack' web application fr...

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