A fair point, but is it an inaccurate statement to say it falls apart when most need it professionally? I can easily accept that MicroPython makes sense for certain use cases, but to recommend it generally for people when I feel like I wasted many hours down the rabbit hole seems to be a bad idea - and I feel like your comment implies it's something like 50/50. So perhaps it's more accurate to say that there are a few pointed use cases when Micropython makes sense to ship with, but at least 80% (and I feel like I'm being very generous here with that number) of people are going to want to go the c/c++ route at the time of writing this comment in 2022, though I could see that changing in the future.

As an aside, I really like Micropython and I spent a LOT of hours trying to make it work at a production level for my use case, but in the end I relented and had to write my software in C - it's not like I'm some low level language purist here. And it's not like my use case is what I would consider super edgy either - a fairly typical project with ESP32 where you wake sensors up on a very conservative basis (once per hour), take basic readings and send the data over HTTPS.

What did you end up using MicroPython for?

Frontend for writing behavioral experiments. So backend runs C++ signal processing etc, graphics display, or whatever we need, all of that has bindings for MicroPython.

Works very well, but: it's still Python. Great, but dynamic so not the best suited for larger applications in my experience - no matter how well-architected the code is. Becomes just really hard to refactor without breaking anything.

My company uses it for medical device development, ama if it will help!

Very cool.

Are you prototyping or manufacturing at scale?

What kind of sensors have you attached?

Manufacturing at scale. Though these are medical - not consumer - devices so we're not talking hundreds of thousands of units. Think high-quality, injection molded, moderately sophisticated devices. Typically hundreds and up to several thousands of units, depending on the project.

We use all manner of sensors; temperature, pressure, cap touch, photodiode detection, cameras.