[gfwilliams]

Hey everyone! I'm the creator of this. Glad to see a few of you have tried it and enjoyed it. Any questions, just let me know below and I'll do my best to answer.

Just to answer some of the stuff below:

Yes, you could write something faster and smaller in C. However chances are you'd spend a lot more time doing it, eg. https://github.com/classycodeoss/nrf52-ibeacon/blob/master/m... vs http://www.espruino.com/iBeacon

Most battery powered devices spend most of their time asleep. If your device spends 1ms awake every minute instead of 0.01ms then honestly in most cases that's not a big deal, because the power consumption of everything else in the system is 100x that.

Low.js/Moddable/Jerryscript/etc are bigger, faster more complete JS engines that provide a more Node.js-style experience, but generally for more powerful devices. With Espruino we're saying if you're willing to make a few small tweaks to the way you write code then you can use amazingly low power devices: 0.003mA sleep for nRF52 vs. 80-500mA for Raspberry Pi or 0.8mA for ESP32 (with RAM retention)

[pjmlp]

Good work, stuff like Espruino and MicroPython are the modern version of 8 bit BASIC.

As I regularly mention, most microcontrollers are much more powerful than 8 and 16 bit home computers back in the day.

Good luck for your endeavors.

[ralphc]

I haven't used any of these but recently I went down a rabbit hole of reading about prototype-based vs. class-based OOP, which took me to NewtonScript. It went prototype-based (inspired by Self, the common ancestor of NewtonScript and JavaScript) and because of this, many "classes" could have default data and functions point back into the ROM, meaning it was possible to have hand-held GUI apps and OS with 128KB of RAM. Does Espruino take advantage of this technique to save on RAM, and does using JavaScript's prototype-based OOP make it more suitable than Python for low-memory situations?