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		jononor on June 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DeviceScript – TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices One of they main reasons was that they had to: the cost of a more capable system was too high. In the last years that has improved drastically, and there are many usecases where the 5 USD increase in BOM needed to run JS/Python etc can be justified.

mmoskal on June 9, 2023 [–]

Exactly! But it's more like 1.50 USD (ESP32-C3 or RP2040 compared to say STM8).

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