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Re:MicroPython – Python for Microcontrollers by SOLAR_FIELDS on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:46PM (#31700912)
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.

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