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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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I'm trying to imagine Espruino in a year or 2 years or 5 years. In projects that I am involved in ... in real-life ... we have fallen into the trap of "it works just fine now, why change anything" ... and the competition comes along and increments their functional base inch by inch ... a year later we look around and all of a sudden the customer base is saying "Why don't you do this ... and this ... and this ..." and by then its too late .. our competition has done all of that already.
We should assume that by this time next year or 2 years or 5 years ... the capabilities of the base MCUs will be dramatically better than we have today. If we don't plan to take advantage of those platforms, we will be caught short when the capability becomes actual.
This does bring up the concept though of strategic direction. Is Espruino focused exclusively at the low end MCU into the future? If it wants to remain at the low-end with the belief that the Linux eco system will prevail with its spectrum of development tools for higher end MCUs ... then yes ... maintenance mode of Espruino is probably sufficient.