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Re:MicroPython by sitkack on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:46PM (#24183060)
The biggest thing you are underselling (if at all), is that you can have a repl directly into the device itself and doing lots of exploratory programming directly in-circuit.
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Re:MicroPython by matt_trentini on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:42PM (#24183372)
Yes, this is a complete game-changer; I love showing experienced embedded engineers how to connect to the REPL, and poke live, interactive I2C or SPI at a peripheral. :)
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Re:MicroPython by askvictor on Sunday August 16, 2020 @11:27PM (#24183588)
I only wish Micropython had a real debugger (pdb).
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Re:MicroPython by matt_trentini on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:32AM (#24184015)
#5026 was merged last year; it provides the sys.settrace primitive which paves the way for debugging support.

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/5026

Still quite a lot of work left for pdb-like features but I'm optimistic it'll get there!

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Re:MicroPython by joshspankit on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:20PM (#24183253)
This jumps it to the top of my list of tech to explore on microcontrollers.
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Re:MicroPython by m463 on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:39AM (#24184039)
PEEK

POKE

(who named these interesting commands?)

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Re:MicroPython by phoe-krk on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:25AM (#24184824)
Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEEK_and_POKE:

> One of the earliest references to these commands in BASIC, if not the earliest, is in Altair BASIC[4].

[4] https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_mitsMITSAl_6669937/MITS...

So, it seems to date back to 1975.

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