[saghm]

I think the original question here was asking about frontend since this post is about using Rust with web assembly as an alternative to JavaScript. There's no need to use web assembly to use Rust on the backend, nor is there any reason why you couldn't use JavaScript on the frontend if you were using Rust on the backend. As much as I love Rust and prefer to avoid writing JavaScript, I think the arguments for using Rust on the frontend are a lot less clear right now given the hoops you'd need to jump through. If wasm ends up getting proper access to the DOM, that might change, but I'm out of the loop and have no idea if there's any planned timeline for that at all, let alone when that might be.