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

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