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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.

pretty much the only other reasonably non-obscure languages I can think of that you could technically do this in (bc you can run anything in wasm, the embedded/no-os target is the tricky bit) other than Rust are C, C++, Go, Objective-C, and Swift. Kotlin *might* bc it has a native target for iOS.

TIL Kotlin/Native is a thing, cool! I might play around with it someday

I'm less inclined to explore the others (Java, Scala, Clojure come to mind) but Kotlin seems sorta friendly. Same with Swift but the non-macos story is still a WIP for now

kotlin is like if groovy were made by reasonable people (both laudatory and derogatory)

kotlin syntax is so sugary it might give you diabetes.