Kasper Lund has a lot of my respect for work he did on V8 and Dart so I was hoping this was going to be super interesting article about trying to struggle to.... make V8 run on a specific microcontroller!
I think I feel more cheated because of his background and that it's highly featured on HNews.
"It is fast, but prohibitively expensive in terms of memory."
So there's no room for v8 on a $2 board, Toit vm and toit language have been designed from the ground up for the iot world.
Tidbit, Dart team did have an iot project called dartino, before flutter took over the dart world.
Anyway the article was posted on the toit website.
I've been following their progress via twitter. https://twitter.com/toitware https://twitter.com/toitlang
Yeah, as someone who works with microcontrollers professionally and would always love better tools to work with, this article didn't do much to sell me.
It is a nice bit of marketing in the way it positioned itself. I don't think I'd be able to articulate why I'm not rushing to use this without getting called an old fogey.