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by jononor 1108 days ago
One of they main reasons was that they had to: the cost of a more capable system was too high. In the last years that has improved drastically, and there are many usecases where the 5 USD increase in BOM needed to run JS/Python etc can be justified.
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Exactly! But it's more like 1.50 USD (ESP32-C3 or RP2040 compared to say STM8).