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Similar projects:

  - http://duktape.org/
  - http://mujs.com/
  - https://github.com/gfwilliams/tiny-js
  - http://pdqi.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/pdqi/jsi.cgi/doc/tip/jsi/www/index.wiki

Fun alternative: Compile JS to Lua and run that instead (e.g. as done by https://tessel.io/)

  - https://github.com/PaulBernier/castl
  - https://github.com/tessel/colony-lua

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One more: https://cesanta.com/smartjs.shtml

Opinion: Lua is a better choice for IoT but alas the programming "market" has (again) chosen the worse alternative.

Lua has a significant strike against it in being 1-based when everything embedded you'd want to put Lua on is 0-based.

In addition, the point of having Javascript is so that I can get my junior software folks (proxy for any inexperienced programmer) to write things for my embedded hardware instead of having to haul out my senior staff engineers who have 20 years of experience writing C for embedded devices.

Look at Arduino vs. Raspberry Pi/BeagleBone. Arduino has way more developers because it was orders of magnitude easier to program. Ecosystem is important.

>Lua has a significant strike against it in being 1-based when everything embedded you'd want to put Lua on is 0-based.

Why is being 0-based more important on embedded compared to other contexts?

Don't forget Picobit which is Scheme: https://github.com/stamourv/picobit

I was listing Javascript interpreters with a small resource footprint; how does Picobit fit in?

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