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That said, there are ways to embrace the JS ecosystem without actually using JavaScript. Many popular languages have transpilers that will convert code written in that particular language into something that will run natively in a web browser (in other words, JavaScript). Even TypeScript is a language that gets transpiled into JavaScript, so it's not that outrageous of a concept, it just gets more difficult to do the further you get away from languages that don't already look like JavaScript.
In the past, I've personally used GWT to transpile Java to JavaScript in order to share some complex code modules that we needed to use on both the server and client for an enterprise application. In more recent years, I've been using Transcrypt to develop React/MUI applications that are coded in Python. So I'm able to use JS libraries that are proven to work great in a web browser, but use my preferred language to code to the API of those libraries. This approach is certainly not for everyone, but it can be a viable option in some cases.