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There's a teriffic episode of 'The Memory Place' podcast about this, that's well worth a listen (10 mins): https://thememorypalace.us/2018/06/no-summer/

I’d highly recommend Espruino — a microcontroller that runs JavaScript http://www.espruino.com/

For anyone interested in embedded JavaScript but wants broader hardware support and/or modern JavaScript support[1], the XS JavaScript engine is microcontroller-independent[2], and Moddable provides supported ports for ESP8266, ESP32 (the successor to ESP8266), and the Gecko series of processors. (They also sell some hardware kits for folks who want that: https://www.moddable.com/product.php)

[1] Espruino supports ES5, XS supports ECMAScript 2018 [2] https://www.moddable.com/faq.php#microcontrollers

Thank you! Moddable looks like a dream come true for my embedded systems needs. Did not know they existed.

I think the physical card is (in part) an attempt to stimulate digital usage (especially in North America where adoption of Apple Pay is pretty low compared to other places like Europe). Give people something they're familiar with (a physical card), reward them with cashback (which they will likely use digitally), and eventually wean them off the physical card completely.

I'm surprised to hear that Apple Pay has higher adoption in Europe, given that the iPhone has lower penetration there.

iPhone adaption might be lower, but contactless adaption is through the roof. I can’t remember the last shop I was at which didn’t accept contactless. Even vendors at farmers markets accept contactless these days.

So since most banks support Apple Pay (and Google Pay), pretty much everybody who is comfortable with technology uses it.