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Re:JavaScript right on the hardware by taylorbuley on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @07:27PM (#6215149)
I think JavaScript might be most successful on Arduino for the same reason - it's a platform with which most tinkerers are familiar.

http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/07/16/javascript-powe...

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Re:JavaScript right on the hardware by tlrobinson on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @07:46PM (#6215243)
I suspect Arduino (at least the ones I've used, Uno?) are a bit underpowered for higher level managed languages like JavaScript.
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Re:JavaScript right on the hardware by wyager on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:09PM (#6215340)
Absolutely. On AVRs, `new` and `malloc` work, but just barely. RAII/stack-only programming is basically a necessity. That is simply not possible with languages like Python or Javascript.
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Re:JavaScript right on the hardware by taylorbuley on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @08:27PM (#6215408)
JS doesn't necessarily have to run natively for this kind of programming model to work out. Johnny5, the library discussed in the link I provided, rather provides an interface to the Arduino's StandardFirmata API http://firmata.org/wiki/Main_Pager
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Re:JavaScript right on the hardware by gfwilliams on Thursday August 15, 2013 @05:52AM (#6216923)
To be fair, the Espruino JavaScript interpreter manages this pretty well (in around 8kB of RAM). http://www.espruino.com
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Re:JavaScript right on the hardware by ams6110 on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @11:47PM (#6216041)
Anyone with a tinkerer's mind would not have a moment's trouble picking up Lua particularly if they already knew Javascript (or any other scripting language for that matter).
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