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I don't get the impression from the linked website, that this is for beginners...

>>> Bring your existing experience with JavaScript, but be prepared to think about performance, code size, and memory use in a different way.

I think the use case is if your application would actually benefit from the Javascript language, either because of what it can do, or to make something readable and maintainable in a way that might be hard with raw assembly.

In a similar vein, I played with CircuitPython for a while, and went back to C for my microcontroller projects. My programs tend to feed data up to a desktop computer, typically into the loving arms of a Python program.

I got into computers almost exactly 40 years ago, and the earliest exposure of most kids to programming was in BASIC. I read a book on the Z80 microprocessor, and felt that I could have at least taken a crack at assembly, but didn't have access to a Z80 machine.




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