I am concerned that many of these products will not hit practical state until issues like power consumption and cost can be addressed. I don't want to have my device wired and I don't want my $1 dollar light bulb to cost $40.
If these guys insist on using JS they should compile it to 8bit code, so that we can better address to cost and power issues. Right now they have something that is larger than an Arduino. My gut reaction is that python might be a better fit.
Well, they compile to Lua and then use a JIT on the device.
Using JS for hardware is an audacious, repulsive, brilliant, horrifying idea - maybe people don't want to call it web assembly language, but it's certainly web lingua franca. If you want to execute in the client, you have to use it. If you don't like it, everybody is writing frontends that compile to it (e.g. coffeescript), asm.js to compile it to, and writing books about the "good parts". So... every web developer knows javascript... and assuming it's they who will make the "web of things"... it makes sense to harness all that work and future work around JS (though I'd think the "internet of things" would be made by more hardcore folk, like the TCP/IP designers).
I don't know if this will pay off for them, but kudos for the chutzpah to actually do it (and for even considering it!) But it really could work out - whoa dude, awesome leap of faith!
I am concerned that many of these products will not hit practical state until issues like power consumption and cost can be addressed. I don't want to have my device wired and I don't want my $1 dollar light bulb to cost $40.
If these guys insist on using JS they should compile it to 8bit code, so that we can better address to cost and power issues. Right now they have something that is larger than an Arduino. My gut reaction is that python might be a better fit.