What I thought to be the most promising part of the article:
Tessel created "a compiler that translated the JavaScript source to Lua and executed the translated code on the very compact Lua virtual machine on the microprocessor of the device".
The newer tessel is actually abandoning this model in favor of a faster system that just runs actual node/iojs and modules built for the platform architecture.
Tessel created "a compiler that translated the JavaScript source to Lua and executed the translated code on the very compact Lua virtual machine on the microprocessor of the device".
linked: https://tessel.io/blog/98257815497/how-tessel-works-the-basi...