[pengaru]

With proper care it's doable, but that stack is bringing a whole lot of baggage you'll need to either strip out or isolate your control process from.

Having a bunch of cores is advantageous though. There are a variety of options for dedicating one core to the special purpose while the rest serve the general-purpose wild west.

But I'd be surprised if you didn't have headaches just using some python code with cpu affinity on an otherwise unchanged raspbian install.