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This ESP32 chip seems to be getting a lot of language support. We also recently saw a Clojure implementation: https://blog.tindie.com/2020/07/clojurescript-on-esp32-why-n...

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Nice chip. It is so crazy what you get for the price of 2 cokes.

But I am not surprised it gets a lot of language support. 160Mhz for a µC... My first PC I got was ancient when I got it and it had 166Mhz. Single core of course. At least it had 4x the RAM. And all that now cost < 10$...

For a BOM, 2 cokes is not exactly cheap once you scale it to tens and hundred of thousands. Imagine a SaaS where you are charged for every single database row, that is the reality of hardware unit economics.

As shown by Arduino and Raspberry PI success, not everyone wants to scale up to tens and hundreds of thousands.

Those aforementioned products are designed for prototyping, for production Atmel chips are fairly competitive.

There are plenty of "production" projects done by maker community.

I am also not surprised, given what we could do on the Amstrad PC 1512 that we had on the school computer club.

The ESP32 is much better than most 16bit home computers, it just misses a companion blitter and sound chip.

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