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Chromium and Firefox are web browsers, of course they only support HTML+JS. That’s what they were designed for.
WebAssembly is becoming more popular, which lets you run code written in languages other than JavaScript in a browser. It's not possible to do everything yet, so you still need some JS code and a bridge between the WASM and JS, but it's getting there. Emulators that run in the browser often use it.
I don't think, there's currently any plans to introduce a non-JS API for accessing the DOM. It would just take an insane amount of implementation work + documentation.
But frameworks can generate access code for you, so you don't actually need to write any JS yourself. Rust is quite far ahead in this regard, thanks to the
wasm-bindgen
library.