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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.

clojure? (i can see the argument that clojure and clojurescript are not actually the same language but, setting it aside briefly)

(also i certainly don't do this, and have done the rust version, so i must agree that it's better, but i don't actually know why)

partially the thing is that there is a *very* narrow set of languages that actually meet this. like depending on whether you count a vm that's written in another language or not, you lose python (micropython itself is also very much not iso normal python) and most JVM stuff, and BEAM, Lua, etc.

That makes sense, I also learned today that I internalized a misunderstanding of graal as being cooler than it is (which admittedly is still pretty cool)

graal is very cool and actually *might* make clojure qualify?