The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market

Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by lend000 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:19PM (#14848984)

I used Electric Imp in college for an electronics project -- glad to hear it's still kicking! It was a great platform, minus the custom Squirrel language (a Python or Lua library would be more familiar to most people).

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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by komali2 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:29PM (#14849104)

Hah, that's exactly what I brought up in the interview - why squirrel?

I've talked to our CEO and the original core team about this a couple times. In their minds LUA, while 7 years ago was more widely adopted, was also less well supported and more volatile than squirrel. Squirrel got the job done, was pretty straightforward, and was small to get going. And, once the decision was made and customers were already compiling it onto live projects.... Well, at least there haven't been growing pains as a result, it still gets the job done and we have metric tons of libraries for it.

Also the files end in .nut which is incredible.

Edit: to note, it's not exactly squirrel, we made some changes: https://electricimp.com/docs/squirrel/learningsquirrel/

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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by krylon on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:16AM (#14855211)

> Also the files end in .nut which is incredible.

Mmmh, that is probably the funniest file extension I have come across to this day. Awesome!

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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by pjmlp on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:21AM (#14854219)

I like the idea of a type safe programming language for IoT.

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