The Abstract Wikipedia team is working toward a rewrite of our backend services in a different programming language, likely Rust. Node/JS has served us well, but we have run up against some [WebAssembly System Interface] limits that would be best dealt with by switching to a different ecosystem.

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    2 months ago

    True, I didn’t structure my sentence correctly.

    It gets to compete with Java and Python because it’s also JIT is what I meant to say.