moddable VS PikaPython

Your project might be a good candidate for the Moddable SDK: https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable In particular the "mods" feature that allows sandboxed user scripts.

> meaning that to deploy those apps requires embedding an entire web browser into every app

It doesn't require it, that's just what they choose, and it has little to do with the language. (Besides, if you actually observe them—and ignore what they tell you about liking JS—then it's clear that most of them hate their preferred language.) Languages and the bindings that a particular runtime exposes are orthogonal. You can have GTK apps written in JS, for example, or you can write a program in JS that compiles into a binary that runs on a microcontroller[2].

This is much more of a problem with the culture of Electron and the adjacent NPM ecosystem than it is anything else. Conflating the source of these problems is a great way to tank any would-be activism meant to solve them.

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Shell>

2. <https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable/blob/public/...>

I experimented with Moddable some time ago and also contributed a module for Linux. It's written in C and I found the code quite readable, and the entire architecture good too. It's almost ES6 complete too.

https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable

https://www.moddable.com/

There's JavaScript/ECMAScript via Moddable's XS engine: https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable

"A typical microcontroller used with the Moddable SDK has about 45 KB of free memory, 1 MB of Flash ROM, and runs at 80 MHz. The Moddable SDK uses many different techniques, both at build time and at run time, to work efficiently on these devices."

You think that’s bad. How about JavaScript for embedded https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable

PikaPython – ultra-lightweight Python interpreter that runs with only 4KB of RAM, zero dependencies

An ultra-lightweight Python interpreter that runs with only 4KB of RAM, zero dependencies. It is ready to use out of the box without any configuration required and easy to extend with C. Similar project: MicroPython, JerryScript.

A very interesting solution for high level interface access by less professional developers could be seen in pikascript, which works even on very small devices. WAMR is another project with similar capabilities. Both of them can be very well combined with core infrastructure realized as embedded rust code.

pikascript – An ultra-lightweight Python engine that can run with 4KB of RAM