Samsung brings JavaScript to the internet of things
Samsung is offering a stable 1.0 release of the lightweight engine for resource-constrained devices Samsung has begun offering a stable 1.0 release of JerryScript , its lightweight JavaScript engine for the internet of things (IoT). Requiring less than 64KB of system RAM, the open source engine is intended for resource-constrained devices like microcontrollers. JerryScript backs on-device compilation and can access peripherals from JavaScript. It uses a C API for embedding in applications, and Ubuntu 14.04 Linux is the only supported development environment. [ Get the scoop on the internet of things at its most fundamental level and find out where it's headed, in InfoWorld's downloadable PDF and ePub. | Pick up the latest insight on the tech news that matters from InfoWorld's Tech Watch blog . ] JerryScript features optimization for low memory consumption and a 160K binary size when compiled for the ARM Thumb-2 proce...