Comment on Tessel: A microcontroller that runs JavaScriptparentComments−dkersten12yIt doesn't run javascript (not natively). It runs just like every other ARM microcontroller (so assembly, C, etc).This device has a lua interpreter running as its firmware (coded in C, it looks like) and these guys wrote a javascript to lua compiler.So it runs javascript by compiling it to lua bytecode and then intrepreting it in a C-based intrepreter.
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It doesn't run javascript (not natively). It runs just like every other ARM microcontroller (so assembly, C, etc).
This device has a lua interpreter running as its firmware (coded in C, it looks like) and these guys wrote a javascript to lua compiler.
So it runs javascript by compiling it to lua bytecode and then intrepreting it in a C-based intrepreter.