TC53 - ECMAScript Modules for Embedded Systems

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Posted at 2020-01-01 by Rollo

Hello.

I just stumbled on Ecma TC53 and want to bring it to your attention in case if you missed it - searching these forums returned zero items. Turns out, there is a formal group of people working on standardizing JavaScript for embedded systems specifically.
I guess it doesn't make much financial sense for @gfwilliams to attend these meetings, but still as a creator of the most successful (in my eyes) JS engine|interpreter, he should have a say.
It may also be in Espruino's interest to explore it further.

So here is a link: https://www.ecma-international.org/memento/tc53.htm

The IO Class Pattern proposal looks interesting: https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable/blob/public/documentation/io/io.md#tc53-io-a-new-take-on-javascript-inputoutput-on-microcontrollers

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Posted at 2020-01-02 by parasquid

Next meeting seems to be happening 15th Jan via teleconference: https://github.com/EcmaTC53/admin

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Posted at 2020-01-06 by @gfwilliams

Thanks! Yes, I was aware of this but I can't afford the £3000/year to join ECMA.

While it'd be nice to get involved, I'm afraid I just don't have the time to get involved at the moment. To do it properly is going to take weeks of time (not to mention implementing the spec that got decided on) and can't really see how I can spare that time :(