Is there some kind of an advertising blurb for why you’d want to use Toit, especially for scripting? I think the only thing I saw was “a readable language”, but I’d probably consider Python more readable than it judging from the examples.

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floitsch an hour ago | parent | next [-]

A few more bullet points to encourage readers to have a look at Toit:

- Faster than Python. Depending on the benchmark up to x10.

- Can be compiled to executables. Currently `-o` just takes an interpreter and attaches the bytecodes, but Kasper also started experimenting with native output.

- Cleaner base. Objects aren't just hashtables. This can be seen as a downside as well (making the language less flexible), but in my book it's a win.

- The `--named=value` syntax is just a winner :)

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mkl 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

> The `--named=value` syntax is just a winner

The "--" seems so unnecessary though. Wouldn't "name=" be sufficient to signal a named parameter? Or maybe Toit has expressions that use "=".

	▲	floitsch 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We probably could have made it work without the `--`. Coming from Posix, the `--` feels natural, and it also allows for code completion.

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ricardobeat 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Good luck running (micro)python on an ESP32.

	▲	qweqwe14 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Lua exists :)