[dekhn]

I want to emphasize that MicroPython is actually really great, especially on the ESP-32. I was pretty skeptical (having written both Arduino and ESP-IDF code) but after using it a bit, it solves a wide range of problems for me. I was surprised to see that interrupts in python actually can be fast enough to be useful, and it can control a number of the peripherals through DMA, which means you can often do stuff at hardware speeds w/ no CPU involvement. You also get a REPL and a real filesystem for free. And I know I can always take whatever I've written and transliterate it to ESP-IDF.