Microsoft with its experimental DeviceScript technology is extending its TypeScript language to tiny IoT devices.
An open source project introduced by Microsoft Research in May, DeviceScript brings a TypeScript developer experience to low-resource, microcontroller-based devices, including the ESP32 and RP2040 hardware platforms. A subset of TypeScript, DeviceScript compiles to custom VM bytecode that can run in very constrained environments. The VM compiles to 10KB of code, with the floating point library and a Jacdac SDK adding 30KB. Jacdac is Microsoft’s hardware and software stack for microcontrollers and peripherals.
