>In February 2019, the company raised DKK 23 million (approximately US$3.5 million) in seed funding from Swedish venture capital firm Creandum.[4] Early versions required cloud registration to deploy code to devices.[5]
> The commercial cloud offering was later discontinued. Development of fleet-management tooling continued through an open-source project called Artemis, built on Supabase and PostgreSQL, which users self-host.[8]
> According to Denmark's Central Business Register, Toitware ApS ceased operating in 2024.[9] Development of the language continues as a community project on GitHub.
Seems unlikely to be a bait and switch at this point
Toit is a language for writing scripts on your computer and applications on your ESP32. A readable syntax, an efficient runtime, and tools that work together.
Free and open source. Maintained by volunteers.
Think of it as a runtime + scheduler that you deploy programs to ESP32 devices. It gives you the ability to run multiple programs simultaneously (with isolation) and remote updates. The language compiles to bytecode; the developers have lots of experience writing VMs for constrained devices; see https://www.theregister.com/software/2004/07/27/forgotten-la... for something that predates V8 and Dart.
They should write this prominently on their website. It doesn’t radiate trustworthiness/substance/reputation. Also performance and resource requirements should be prominent when targets are MCUs.
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.
The wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toit is short but still gives a lot of context.
Just a joking side note: switch n to t in the URL and you get article for food in Estonian: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toit
>In February 2019, the company raised DKK 23 million (approximately US$3.5 million) in seed funding from Swedish venture capital firm Creandum.[4] Early versions required cloud registration to deploy code to devices.[5]
DNS blackhole the domain and run.
> The commercial cloud offering was later discontinued. Development of fleet-management tooling continued through an open-source project called Artemis, built on Supabase and PostgreSQL, which users self-host.[8]
> According to Denmark's Central Business Register, Toitware ApS ceased operating in 2024.[9] Development of the language continues as a community project on GitHub.
Seems unlikely to be a bait and switch at this point
whoops, black and white thinking burns me once more.
Even after reading that (and more of the homepage) I have no idea what this is.
Think of it as a runtime + scheduler that you deploy programs to ESP32 devices. It gives you the ability to run multiple programs simultaneously (with isolation) and remote updates. The language compiles to bytecode; the developers have lots of experience writing VMs for constrained devices; see https://www.theregister.com/software/2004/07/27/forgotten-la... for something that predates V8 and Dart.
The people behind Toit are the original people behind the V8 VM in Chrome. They know their stuff.
Those were it's creators, are they still involved after the company folded?
Because if not, that might explain the lack of marketing around it.
Kasper and I are still working on it.
Also co-founding Dart. They definitely know their stuff.
Dart should have enjoyed the popularity that TypeScript received. Tough to compete with Hejlsberg though.
They should write this prominently on their website. It doesn’t radiate trustworthiness/substance/reputation. Also performance and resource requirements should be prominent when targets are MCUs.
Here's a beginner tutorial for the language: https://docs.toit.io/language/toitversus
Nice syntax. It looks like how we'd design programming if C had never existed.
Looks interesting! I can't tell really from the docs the untended use case though. It says "scripts", but also " applications".
Most importantly though (/s), is this toit as in "roof" in French, toit as in "to it", or otherwise?
It's from Austin Powers.
"toit like a tiger"
https://youtu.be/gu31VyXlTzo
Looks quite nice
Who is using this? The company originally behind it has shut down
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.