Empathy [he/him]

Rust, because I’m lazy and I want a compiler that helps me out. Performance is a pretty neat bonus.

I really like the word you used, code smell. I often have a hard time expressing to co-workers in code reviews why something feels off, it just does.

I’d honestly choose a similar stack for the back-end. I have limited experience with Rust, but my impressions so far is that it’s a language that allows you to make changes with confidence that they’ll work. I feel like starting something in Rust is somewhat difficult, but contributing is relatively simple.

For the front-end, I don’t think the choice is as important, since I think that by virtue of being federated and being able to have multiple front-ends, it would almost be better for the front-end to be managed by other parts of the community. And I say that as a primarily front-end/developer-experience dev.

I would probably default to React since I’m familiar with it and it’s very popular, but would probably be tempted to experiment with something better.

Good to know! I’ve been thinking of switching my setup to Kubernetes, especially after dealing with some unstable services that need to be run in the correct order.