The gccrust and rustc frontend for gcc projects aim to address that.

https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576 https://vt.social/@lina/113079848180043670

The final fallback should be robodialing some tech support service and provide TeamViewer credentials

Nix + dockerTools.

Doesn’t even need docker, and if buitt with flakes I don’t even have to checkout the repo.

The only real alternative to an embedded scripting language is lua, and too few prefer it over js. Lots of internals in gnome-shell is also written in js, allowing the scripting language to hook straight into the api and data structures without a plugin interface.

In a distant future everything is we assembly, with typed stable interfaces for plugins. But the might happen in gnome 8