A virtual machine for microcontrollers
The article is not really about V8 not fitting on microcontrollers, but aside from that:<p><i>> In a nutshell, the problem is that on microcontrollers everything is firmware that is compiled, linked, and deployed together using really old-fashioned tools. Changing anything means changing everything.</i><p>The author hasn't seemingly heard of <a href="http://www.ulisp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ulisp.com/</a> which is small enough to fit within kilobytes of memory and at the same time featureful enough to drive complex microcontroller applications. At the same time, it has a normal REPL running on the microcontroller that is accessible from the outside and usable for Lisp-style interactive programming.