Oh, something about open source software & it's sustainability:
If some are not aware of the situation, it goes to comical and sad point where a developer publishing FOSS project gets a message from someone at a big company and telling them to fix an issue that's holding back their entire team. Of course no support from the company...
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A bigger community could help, if that bigger community includes new contributors with enough free time.
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.
Oh, something about open source software & it's sustainability:
If some are not aware of the situation, it goes to comical and sad point where a developer publishing FOSS project gets a message from someone at a big company and telling them to fix an issue that's holding back their entire team. Of course no support from the company...
More details in this post.
A bigger community could help, if that bigger community includes new contributors with enough free time.
Maybe a software-only kickstarter, like Damien George did with ESP8266?
Or dive in all-in, and design something with the new ESP32-S2. Might be slightly risky :)