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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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The Arduino spacing would just be for a breakout board (not a new microcontroller board) - so you'd still be able make compact things if you wanted. It's more to provide a way to connect things easily, and the more advanced users would just go direct.
I'm not sure the demand is there for a GSM/LTE board at the moment - it starts to get expensive to keep a SIM card going. Particle Electron works (IMO) because they're providing a cheap SIM card as well - but there's no way I'm big enough to arrange something like that.
Of course if a mobile operator themselves wanted a dev board that ran JavaScript then that could work out great - but there's nothing like that on the horizon at the moment. Realistically the GSM modules are so cheap now (like the A6) that it's going to be cheaper to just get your favourite Espruino board and wire it up to a module than to buy an 'all in one' from me.
I guess one option is for me to start selling kits - eg. adaptor board + Espruino + GSM radio, and the same for LoRa and things like that...