inline-python VS CircleMUD

This may be cursed but you could just use https://github.com/fusion-engineering/inline-python to use the Python Levensthein library in Rust directly. Just make sure to invoke the Rust binary under a venv with the library

I know the OP asked about Node/PHP but for Python, there is https://github.com/fusion-engineering/inline-python which can give you both Rust and the all-the-libraries experience.

Inspired by past work: LINQ, inline-python, crepe, DataScript, Riffle.

And if that doesn't work, there's always inline-python.

Unfortunately the server has a blocking select until there's a new socket for when there's no open sockets to manage. I either have to change the old logic or write some awkward condvar stuff (like here https://github.com/Yuffster/CircleMUD/commit/94c27cc11fda671ede5316e6aadc170889060f5e). It's really sad, the naive version that busy loops when the server has no connections is very chic and then it gets a lot harder to follow.

Here's the original CircleMUD code. Here's a decent write-up of the origin of "proc" as shorthand for a triggered effect. Here's a TIL of someone from another MMO discovering its actual origin.

CircleMUD code from https://github.com/Yuffster/CircleMUD

That's a backronym. Proc is just short for procedure from ancient MUD code, randomness is not necessary or implied. You'll notice the term "mob" for a monster also comes from there, they used to be called "mobiles".