ESP32-S3-DevKit support

Have you thought of making Espruino able to execute precompiled bytecode?

There are a few different options in Espruino. The easiest is 'pretokenised code' which works right now on ESP32 - it speeds up the parsing a lot.

There's also the ability to write JS or C and have it compiled with an optimising compiler https://www.espruino.com/InlineC or https://www.espruino.com/Compilation - but that's only for boards I sell

There's also a proper JIT compiler which is only used in ARM-based board that I sell

Those could all be extended to RISC-V - but the JIT is a lot of work, and the Inline C / Compilation use up a bunch of server time. I provide that for free for boards that I sell, but I can't do that for people that are using it for free.

The dual licensing is an option, yes... But that would require hundreds of companies to be willing to pay a license fee, and I think it's a while before we'd get there.

But the thing is, whenever anyone has ideas for ways to make money on ESP32, they're almost always talking about finding ways to make money off someone else.

And I feel like that's a big problem - maybe I'm wrong but I think the reality is that you and most other ESP32 users probably would never really consider paying any money for use of the software. And even if you did (lets say you'd stretch to $5 which is probably unlikely) you'd expect that to include a certain level of support - and $5 doesn't pay for much of anyone's time!

• just to add to this there are ESP32 users that are happy to contribute, and I know some of you via donations or Patreon, which I do hugely appreciate. It's more about trying to make this a bit more sustainable