MicroPython
MicroPython is stellar. If you're building an embedded system for people to hack and customize, make the highest level abstraction of the embedded system in MicroPython so that users can easily modify/patch/contribute/hack your system with ease.<p>This is what Arduino and Arduino IDE did for millions of hobbyist, but it is time to ditch C/C++ for MicroPython.<p>In this [1] PyCon talk by Matt Trentini, a demo of QR code generation proves that with plain C and with MicroPython bindings, the performance is identical - 11.5ms. MicroPython <i>is</i> slow, and if the QR code library was written in pure MicroPython, it would take 1500ms. Therefore, it is critical to put performance demanding code in C/C++ modules and compile a MicroPython bindings.<p>I think this is one of the best things that's happened to embedded development in a long time. Lua is nice but IMO Python is even better :)<p>There is also Async IO library support for MicroPython. So ISRs can trigger coroutines!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=437CZBnK8vI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=437CZBnK8vI</a>