I am always a little surprised by efforts like these coming from big companies. There have been multiple efforts in the past to put languages meant for the web on small footprint devices - especially JavaScript.
- Tessel (closed down, domain used to be tessel.io)
Note that some of these projects are over a decade old! Maybe I am the "old man yelling at the cloud" meme, but I don't see embedded developers who have to maintain a project for many many years, using a programming language that changes often.
- Tessel (closed down, domain used to be tessel.io)
- Toit Lang: https://toitlang.org/
- Moddable: https://www.moddable.com/
- Espruino: http://www.espruino.com/
- mBed tried it too: https://os.mbed.com/javascript-on-mbed/
- https://github.com/coder-mike/microvium
I am sure I am missing a few here..
Note that some of these projects are over a decade old! Maybe I am the "old man yelling at the cloud" meme, but I don't see embedded developers who have to maintain a project for many many years, using a programming language that changes often.