CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python

Re:CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python by Uhrheber on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:07AM (#25924859)

CircuitPython is a toy language made for running on Adafruit's halloween/cosplaying gadgets.

It doesn't even support interrupts.

Better use Micropython.

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Re:CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python by bmitc on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:25AM (#25924964)

What I don’t understand is: what features of Python encourage its use in embedded systems in the first place? Why not F# or Elixir?

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Re:CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python by pjmlp on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:27AM (#25925312)

Python is everywhere in education, F# and Elixir are niche languages.

If you want to use F#, you might get lucky with Meadow boards, yet their focus is mostly getting C# to run on their runtime.

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Re:CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python by schwartzworld on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:00AM (#25927160)

Lots of developers already know python, and if you don't it's easy to get rolling.

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Re:CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python by fmakunbound on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:46AM (#25930395)

For pyboard, it's STM32F4 with about 200Kb of RAM. AFAIK, F# and Elixir target VMs (CLR and BEAM) and it seems unlikely that those VMs plus your code will fit on such a chip.

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Re:CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python by dkjaudyeqooe on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:49AM (#25928197)

Ease of use and familiarity to people who aren't principally interested in programming. These are people who want to make things work using microcontrollers.

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