Every so often a language comes out that allows frontend developers to put something other than "JavaScript developer" on their CV.
First CoffeeScript, then Flow and TypeScript, then ReasonML, and now Rust with WASM & web macros.
Of these only TypeScript has been successful, partly because it's backed by Microsoft, but mostly because the code you end up writing is very close to JavaScript.
This is not a dig at Rust (which I love) but God help any developer inheriting a frontend codebase with random bits of Rust in 2024.
First CoffeeScript, then Flow and TypeScript, then ReasonML, and now Rust with WASM & web macros.
Of these only TypeScript has been successful, partly because it's backed by Microsoft, but mostly because the code you end up writing is very close to JavaScript.
This is not a dig at Rust (which I love) but God help any developer inheriting a frontend codebase with random bits of Rust in 2024.