, Blue Ink wrote

... And just like you don't need an OS in your garage remote, chances are you don't need one in your device either.

But I'm all for a richer library...

I can understand paying for simplicity. With the Pi, you have to mange a whole OS and runtime on top of that. So, even if you pay more money for the hardware, upfront, then you can save development costs later.

It seems like Rx would be a good library to have on one of these Netduino things. Given a set of inputs and a timer, you generate outputs. Rx makes much of this trivial.

-Josh