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This podcast talks about this. Casteism is a disgusting remanent of Hinduism — the least someone can do is be AWARE of their privilege and ensure that they are inclusive and fair to their fellow citizens regardless of caste or race.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rough-translation/id12...

I can agree with this. If you find a language that is more approachable and gets stuff done, you should go for it.

(And hopefully get sucked into firmware(I wish we had more firmware-engineers ;-) ))

When engineers start cutting corners and start to design not for performance but “speed of development” — it becomes a slippery slope.

I guess I’m speaking from the standpoint of a firmware engineer, I honestly don’t think going with micro-python for our next product will buy us anything.

However, as I said; if you’re not into firmware and/or just getting started, this makes a great prototyping language.

When you have a product that is running out of flash and you want to deploy an update for your customers, you need that granular control.

I just can’t fathom deploying a full product where I don’t have this sort of control?

From a performance/space standpoint there is decades of compiler optimization experience with IAR/GCC, I’m not sure micropython can achieve that.

I think this is good for someone getting started with microcontrollers(similar to the Arduino)

However, one should not be disillusioned — I doubt this can be used to deploy a mass market product.

However, I can see micro-python’s value in rapid-prototyping to some extent for someone who is not into embedded/firmware as much.

I just showed this to a friend of mine who is a biochemist and he sent me this —

https://fullfact.org/health/richard-dearlove-coronavirus-cla...