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by JohnFen 745 days ago
> I do not know if the ATMega community is so keen to program python.

Not sure that it's the ATMega community being keen to program Python, or Python people keen to program on ATMegas.

The hobbyists I know who prefer ATMega are certainly not using Python. They take the extra step of reflashing the chips, if needed, to get rid of it.
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hi-v-rocknroll 745 days ago
Yep. Atmel/Microchip AVRs popularized by megaAVR ATMega328 toolchain favors their restricted C/C++ subset.

There are a couple of alternative languages that don't require a computer host to drive them:

Visual programming language: https://xod.io

There was Céu: https://github.com/ceu-lang/ceu-arduino

And one can always try AVR assembly if they're really curious.

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