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While it's nicely written, my first question is why are you running JS on a microcontroller?

SmartJS is in the same niche as MicroPython, NodeMCU (non-JIT Lua), Netduino (.net micro) etc: it's a language that is more accessible to people [read: hobbyists] without a ton of experience programming embedded systems and who don't want to get familiar with C/C++ to use Arduino. It's not really meant for production products AFAIK, but to make IoT and other microcontroller stuff more accessible to e.g. web devs without much hardware experience in the case of SmartJS.

also espruino (http://www.espruino.com/) and tessel (https://tessel.io/) (Tessel 1, not 2)

Oh, Tessel is kinda neat. I mostly use ESP8266 with the Arduino libs and PlatformIO and am not much of a Javascript fan, but I understand the appeal of these sort of devices.

I'm just looking forward to getting my hands on the ESP32. Espressif is packing a lot of bang for you buck into those; I just hope they get around to making a native SDK that is better documented. I've used the native SDK on the ESP8266 a bit and it was miserable.

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