@hippy, I don't disagee with what you say. He is a Unix guru, so writing cool stuff is right up his alley. More than skilled enough to scratch any itch too.
The kind of STEM embedded platform race or competition unleashed by Arduino has progress rapidly, and personal projects will mostly fall behind and look dated. Suppose I pick RP2350 as the sweet spot for the next 5 years, then putting effort into MicroPython makes more sense.
For the education side, MicroPython allows for a wide breadth of projects and can cater for students who are beginners to students who want to build more advanced gizmos. It's a more mature ecosystem, I guess. And there are copious amounts of projects using this ecosystem on the Internet for students (and the teachers) to learn from.
Of course, doing your own project is sweeter, and you are in control 100%, and I might even do stuff like that and not publish it (so that I can code just the way I want and not have to edit things to make it suitable for public consumption), so there is really no perfect answer.
The kind of STEM embedded platform race or competition unleashed by Arduino has progress rapidly, and personal projects will mostly fall behind and look dated. Suppose I pick RP2350 as the sweet spot for the next 5 years, then putting effort into MicroPython makes more sense.
For the education side, MicroPython allows for a wide breadth of projects and can cater for students who are beginners to students who want to build more advanced gizmos. It's a more mature ecosystem, I guess. And there are copious amounts of projects using this ecosystem on the Internet for students (and the teachers) to learn from.
Of course, doing your own project is sweeter, and you are in control 100%, and I might even do stuff like that and not publish it (so that I can code just the way I want and not have to edit things to make it suitable for public consumption), so there is really no perfect answer.
Statistics: Posted by katak255 — Thu Dec 12, 2024 2:04 pm