I think this could be mitigated in some cases with better tooling. Many programming languages just make it needlessly difficult to interact with anything that's

I think this could be mitigated in some cases with better tooling. Many programming languages just make it needlessly difficult to interact with anything that's not part of their ecosystem. Check out parcel [0], a web application bundler. It has built-in support for lots of different assets [1], with two notable inclusions being ReasonML and Rust! In this blog post [2] they highlight how easy it is to import Rust code from JavaScript. Another neat example is Objective-C bridging on macOS [3]. The code usually doesn't end up looking very pretty, and it can be brittle at times, but with JavaScriptObjC you can interact directly with all the native APIs using JavaScript. Here's a blog post [4] showing how to write a native app on macOS using JavaScriptObjC. [0] https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel [1] https://parceljs.org/assets.html https://parceljs.org/assets.html [2] https://medium.com/@devongovett/parcel-v1-5-0-released-source-maps-webassembly-rust-and-more-3a6385e43b95 https://medium.com/@devongovett/parcel-v1-5-0-released-sourc... [3] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/HowMacScriptingWorks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016239-CH73-SW4 https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/La... [4] https://tylergaw.com/articles/building-osx-apps-with-js/ https://tylergaw.com/articles/building-osx-apps-with-js/