You can play the original PS1 version if Wipeout in your browser

https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/

I don’t know if that’s the ‘best’ way, but there it is.

If you like Elixer you might enjoy contributing to Akkoma, which is similar to (but better than) Mastodon.

https://docs.akkoma.dev/stable/development/

Python is the number 1 programming language and has been for years. All of these sources use different methods to calculate their rankings and come to the same conclusion:

• https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
• https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022
• https://github.blog/2023-03-02-why-python-keeps-growing-explained/
• https://www.statista.com/chart/21017/most-popular-programming-languages/

It depends

They wrote their own GUI toolkit (oof) and it’s hardware accelerated (argh), so OS portability is going to be unusually difficult unless they planned for it from the beginning. No mention of that in the article, so I doubt they did.