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Did I read the article I quoted from? Yes. "Anymore" is the key word. I'm questioning the need to have JavaScript at all when they started out with a perfectly good language. Their problem wasn't that there was anything wrong with Lua; the problem was in transpiling JavaScript to it.

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Don't have time != lazy, but that's a different argument. One of the cool things on this new one is it runs Rust, arguably the best language for this purpose, so you don't have to use JavaScript if you think it's stupid

What do you mean by "runs Rust"? Rust compiles to native code. The old one could run Rust code too.

Rust will be supported by the tools the same way JS is. `tessel push` will run the cross compiler, and Rust libraries will be provided to access the hardware and modules.

Yes, you can get to the underlying Linux system and run anything you want (including Lua), but the point is to abstract away the OS so you only have to think about your code and the hardware.

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