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Update to reflect settling on Rust for initial development

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The current proposal for an implementation language is Nim, which has a well-developed static type system, with generic functions and operator overloading, and a clean mostly brace-free syntax. It compiles to C, C++, and JavaScript, and has foreign function interfaces for all three. There is a third-party direct-to-WebAssembly compiler using LLVM that was active not too long ago. So this seems like a promising choice and likely to be the way to go unless some issue or better alternative pops up. We're currently developing Dyna3 in Rust, with a Civet-like [syntax unmangler](https://code.studioinfinity.org/glen/husht) on the back burner.
An early proposal for an implementation language was Nim, which has a well-developed static type system, with generic functions and operator overloading, and a clean mostly brace-free syntax. It compiles to C, C++, and JavaScript, and has foreign function interfaces for all three. There is a third-party direct-to-WebAssembly compiler using LLVM that was active not too long ago. So this seems like a promising choice and likely to be the way to go unless some issue or better alternative pops up.
However, a single program cannot call both C/C++ and JavaScript. Dyna3 might consist of multiple programs, though, that somehow call each other, so it might be possible to use both external JavaScript and C++ libraries in the overall project -- I am not sure. However, a single program cannot call both C/C++ and JavaScript. Dyna3 might consist of multiple programs, though, that somehow call each other, so it might be possible to use both external JavaScript and C++ libraries in the overall project -- I am not sure.