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Samsung banks on JavaScript, Node.js for IoT

Updated: at 04:19 PM

The Internet of Things is growing and Samsung for one is choosing Node.js for microcontrollers

Samsung looks to leverage JavaScript as a mechanism for IoT (Internet of things) development with its IoT.js project.

The recently unveiled IoT.js serves as a lightweight version of Node.js. “IoT.js aims to provide interoperable service platform in the world of IoT, based on Web technology,” the IoT.js website states. “The target of IoT.js is to run in resource-constrained devices [having] only few kilobytes of RAM available device. Thus it will supports very wide range of ‘Things.‘”

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