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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.

  • 4z01235@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    since it’s JIT, it’s actually faster than Python and Java in most cases.

    Java is JIT’d too, and Python can be depending on which runtime you deploy.

    • setVeryLoud(true);
      2·
      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.