The tech community simply wants DOM access for web apps, but the committee is focused on trying to effectively rewrite the JVM in Rust because Rust seems trendy these days.
So the web features languish while the committee still can't agree on how to send strings between two functions on Linux. And the committee moves at a slower pace than the federal government.
As for that, I for one would ask that the federal government revert to going a bit more slowly.
so ppl can be stuck in immigration queue for even longer ?
As someone who went through the US immigration system I'm not deluded about its flaws. But the current situation is absolutely worse.
Rust isn't 'trendy' it's established itself as a leading language.
It's also not controlled by a single corporate like Google (go) or Sun (java) or Microsoft (C#,F#) or Apple (Swift) so a better place to be.
And it's my go-to for anything that isn't front end/web framework.
It has lots of packages now. And can be extended further as it can call other languages modules such as Python.
Can Rust do what C# does? Yes, unquestionably. But there is a value to a runtime and GC. It makes writing application code a bit easier, more assumptions can be made, and less care needs to be given to memory.
It's suboptimal, but usually doesn't matter. I'd rather write a backend in C#, and the performance is usually more than good enough.