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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for low-power Microcontrollers. This site is both a support community for Espruino and a place to share what you are working on.
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Just to add, the reason there isn't a
delayfunction is because the interpreter isn't multi-threaded, so when you start writing functions that take a long time to execute, things start to lag and potentially data that comes in via Serial/USB/etc gets lost (if buffers get full).Generally there are pretty easy ways around it - but if there was a simple
delay()command then most people wouldn't bother and their experience of using Espruino would be much worse :)