[wolfspider]

One of the things I find refreshing about Gemini is there is no standard scripting language in there and the implementations vary wildly on the client side from Rust to Lua to Python to Go as well as the server-side. It made me realize perhaps browser technology for the Web got locked into specific domain-centric technologies which have held it back. There is so much C/C++ required for JavascriptCore and friends in a modern browser there is only one real choice to code in. Mozilla has made great advancements with Rust in Firefox but still a long ways off from a total conversion. It's not that its not possible but if you want to tap into the work which has already been done in JavascriptCore or other technologies you certainly cannot just pick your own backend or language. Gemini's efforts on the other hand are being brought up in parallel and in the open so that is a major strength that the ecosystem is already much more broad from the beginning. Building a modern browser from source nowadays is an intensive process on a single mid-range workstation just due to the fact much of the extra functionality is compulsory and not opt-in. Many of these modules were meant to be pluggable but somewhere along the way they became coupled dependencies of each other. A good example is Electron where in theory it should be just the things you need and a subset of a browser where applicable but instead you need the whole browser engine every single time.