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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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