There actually was a sort of embedded-systems variant of .NET called ".NET Micro" but it fell off a few years back (last release was back in 2015) and I think it had some high-ish minimum requirements (e.g. it's not running on a PIC or the AVR arduinos)

I wrote a blog post about .NET Micro (https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/history-of-microsoft...).

It is actually a pretty nice framework, but it does (did) require a 32bit CPU at minimum, and a hefty amount of flash.

That said, the UI framework was a joy to work with!

Oh nice! That was a good wee read, thanks!

The next post in the series, https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/history-of-microsoft... is more technical.

I should do some sort of write up of just .netMF, but I don't honestly recall too much about it in a general sense, since most of my time was spent in the weeds optimizing code.

These are great. You're a good writer and have interesting experience on some tech that the general-public had exposure to.

Thanks! Sadly my submissions to HN don't do well, I've only ever hit the front page with my launch announcement of the MS Band.

I'm terrible at clickbait titles, so I sadly don't see much hope for future articles achieving any significant level of popularity!