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		HeyLaughingBoy on June 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DeviceScript – TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices Depending on the kind of work you do, this may not be a problem. For my day job, I use STM32/C++ because it's what the company has standardized on. For my side gig/consulting work, I've pretty much standardized on ESP32 because it's cheap, has lots of resources and good community, and I can leverage the Arduino ecosystem. It's grossly overkill for a lot of projects but no-one cares. Clients just care that you can ship fast. My next step is moving the side gig work to MicroPython or some other higher-level language that lets me code much faster than C/C++.

claytongulick on June 9, 2023 [–]

Agree 100%

That was my point - the ESP32 is so versatile and cheap, it's my go-to these days for pretty much everything.

Being about to have an easy and reasonably powerful js runtime for that sounds great.

Apparently node-red also has something for esp32?

And I haven't tried it, but low.js looks cool too [1]

[1] https://github.com/neonious/lowjs

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