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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[–] 4z01235@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week 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.