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I think we probably don't want to miss the wood for the trees. The reason that there is a current usefulness for native code in C/Assembler for NeoPixels is because they have sub microsecond timing requirements that can't be done at the JavaScript level. To the best of my limited knowledge, this appears to be the only example of such a story. If it is a very rare boundary case ... then I'd hate for us to set up an infrastructure for custom builds and there be no other value or need beyond NeoPixels.
If a contributor to Espruino internals development has an hour to spare ... would we want that hour spent on custom code inclusion or would we prefer that the hour be spent burning down the open Issues that already exist?
The NeoPixels story came up because there was an apparent "usage pattern" being asked for by user after user. However, I'm not hearing of other stories that seem to "require" native code (C/Assembler) support.