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It was .NET MicroFramework / Netduino that got me into playing with embedded programming and microcontrollers. Whilst I found it useful at the time (being a C# coder) the fact that it's interpreted and has a huge runtime means it's not really suited for embedded work. It sounds like this is the same so I'm not going near it.

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Hmm, I've seen fully interpreted Lua, Basic, Javascript and Python facilitating micro-controller tasks decently well.

So what's the issue with a small bytecode runtime besides a few X performance hit?

FWIW, Meadow takes a different approach; we're working on AoT support right now, so it won't be interpreted.

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