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Re:Automotive Grade Linux by ravingraven on Monday August 24, 2020 @08:50AM (#24260099)
I work with embedded systems and I can tell you for a fact that there are exactly two reasons for not including Python or newer versions of it:

1) Hardware constraints. 2) Software must be real-time.

Non-embedded developers are usually unable to understand the constrains of embedded and chalk it up to "you are dinosaurs". Not true.

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Re:Automotive Grade Linux by q3k on Monday August 24, 2020 @08:54AM (#24260131)
Sure, and I wouldn't run Python on embedded devices either [1] - and that's not what I was suggesting in the first place.

The lack of Py3 support is not about Python vs $language on $environment, it's about using EOL software in general.

[1] - my last public embedded software contribution was in fact an ELF loader for a smartwatch so that I wouldn't have to use micropython: https://git.card10.badge.events.ccc.de/card10/firmware/-/tre...

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Re:Automotive Grade Linux by ravingraven on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:33AM (#24269872)
Looks awesome!
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