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1. แทกโนมันซี (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2019 14:39:07 EDT แทกโนมันซี

   in 2015 I came across Microscheme, a subset of Scheme which runs on Arduino devices: https://ryansuchocki.github.io/microscheme/

   I gave a shot at writing a keyboard firmware for it, but debugging on the device was just too tedious since the only output available was the blink patterns of a single LED.

   but last week I took another look at it and realized I could run all the code on my laptop if I wrote a test harness in Racket; that way I'd get prints and stack traces working.

   1. แทกโนมันซี (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2019 14:42:08 EDT แทกโนมันซี

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      the difference in the dev flow is like night and day; I got much further than I had in the past in much less time.

      I still prefer the ESP32 when it's an option but in cases where I'm tied to Arduino hardware this is a far better way to go than using C

      1. แทกโนมันซี (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2019 14:42:54 EDT แทกโนมันซี

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         turned out to be about 250 lines of code, though there's still a few bugs

         https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/menelaus/tree/master/menelaus.scm