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by LeifCarrotson 1987 days ago
Forth has a REPL, and tiny Forths like this can work on microcontrollers that are unable to host a Python instance. (A microcontroller that can run Python is pretty rare).

Otherwise, your development cycle in C or assembly is "peer at datasheet, carefully enter bitwise arithmetic, compile, flash, wait several seconds for flashing to complete, debug."