Look, I get that the recent sea of -duino devices can get annoying and represents a new, unknown genre of programming to you, but don't be ridiculous. What stopping you from using whatever language you want to use on whatever platform you want to? And who are you to define what paradigms should be allowed on which hardware?

Embedded platforms are evolving at an incredible pace, in some cases outperforming PC's from just a few generations ago. There is more than enough headroom to make interpretation a viable model for micro controllers, and there is hardly a better way to make the technology more accessible to beginners. Granted, JavaScript would not be my choice either - but to say that interpreted languages aren't an option is ridiculous.