I would go with uLisp because Lisp for me [1]. And for IOT and small distributed things Nerves [2]. I started with Basic Stamp in 1997 way before Arduinos were

I would go with uLisp because Lisp for me [1]. And for IOT and small distributed things Nerves [2]. I started with Basic Stamp in 1997 way before Arduinos were born, and I then went on to PIC chips with C and asm. [1] http://www.ulisp.com/ http://www.ulisp.com/ [2] https://www.nerves-project.org/ https://www.nerves-project.org/