Re:Toit v2.0.0
by Hamuko on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:07AM
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Is there some kind of an advertising blurb for why you’d want to use Toit, especially for scripting? I think the only thing I saw was “a readable language”, but I’d probably consider Python more readable than it judging from the examples.
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Re:Toit v2.0.0
by ricardobeat on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:58AM
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Good luck running (micro)python on an ESP32.
Lua exists :)
A few more bullet points to encourage readers to have a look at Toit:
- Faster than Python. Depending on the benchmark up to x10.
- Can be compiled to executables. Currently `-o` just takes an interpreter and attaches the bytecodes, but Kasper also started experimenting with native output.
- Cleaner base. Objects aren't just hashtables. This can be seen as a downside as well (making the language less flexible), but in my book it's a win.
- The `--named=value` syntax is just a winner :)
> The `--named=value` syntax is just a winner
The "--" seems so unnecessary though. Wouldn't "name=" be sufficient to signal a named parameter? Or maybe Toit has expressions that use "=".