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by devxpy
2862 days ago
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the esp8266 boards are like pretty cheap. Won't argue about pyboard, because that's more of a gimmick. (Way too expensive for what it does) I think the cost and time of developing on micropython vs a lower level language like C, would superseded the cost associated with wasted cpu cycles. However, I agree with the fact that no real product would use mpy right now in production because of the infancy of the project. It certainly looks promising. It's definitely NOT a toy. OTOH JS is just a bad choice for this kind of work IMO. ( I'm a firm believer that JS is just a bad choice for anything in general, but IOT is just madness) |
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In embedded s/w, the cost of the h/w outweighs everything else, ok so your 'easily developed' Python app will cost (say) 10K less to develop... but the resource requirements mean you need to go up $0.5 on the processor....
Oops, on your 500'000 devices you've suddenly wasted $250,000. All because you couldn't be bothered to save a few KB of RAM.
Python is a toy for embedded s/w.... dont get me going on catching bugs at runtime in an embedded system because you're using a dynamically typed language! Now you have to upgrade 500,000 device over-the air (cellular data costs) which will take a week, meanwhile your customers a fuming because their data is being lost!
seriously!