wrote my first Garmin app in Monkey C and its the strangest middle ground ive coded in years

spent most of my career either in kernel land where you account for every byte yourself, or in nodejs/nestjs world where you just throw objects around and let the runtime sort it out. Monkey C is neither and it kept messing with my instincts. the lead dev once described the goal as wanting something that looked like javascript but with no features that waste memory, basically "syntactic splenda" instead of sugar. so you get this language that reads like JS but the second you write JS-brained code it punishe