I have heard that Alpine is really light on resources. Would it be practical for Rust, Node, Python projects in general? Or am I better off sticking with Ubuntu? I know that projects often have extra dependencies and I believe Ubuntu is still very good as far as those being easily available with the package manager. Or maybe about the same thing goes for Debian.
For code that compiles into a binary like Rust, distroless is another option for a minimal image that doesn't run into the compiling issues of Alpine. (Python and Node are supported but lose benefits rapidly depending on any added dependencies)