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You can, just not for anything more than very simple code. Basically there's no flow control so we don't know if commands that are being sent are being executed in time or if the data is just getting thrown away. If you send something that takes a while (even if that's loading a module) then it can cause data loss.
I am looking at adding some kind of flow control into the upload process, but I'm not sure when that will land.
@Wilberforce To be fair, it seems 9600 baud is used for ESP8266 as well. Pretty much everyone new uses the IDE not a serial terminal, and for them the change in baud rate seems to be the biggest stumbling block. It's so bad that if you google 'ESP8266 baud rate', the 7th hit is a post on the Espruino forums complaining about the baud rate being different to normal boards!
The other slightly irritating thing is it makes it super painful if anyone wants to try using different Espruino boards, since you're always in the settings trying to flip between baud rates.
It'd be a very minor upset for existing users who will be aware of the baud rate issues anyway - but at the end of the day they'd probably appreciate having faster more reliable comms with the board.