I'm not trying to pick a fight here, nor am I claiming you're wrong as such, but I think you have to actually justify the claim that programming a microcontroll

I'm not trying to pick a fight here, nor am I claiming you're wrong as such, but I think you have to actually justify the claim that programming a microcontroller in Python is "certainly better" than doing so in BASIC. An overwhelming number of microcontroller applications are extremely simple bits of control code; there's certainly an argument to be made that _not_ carrying around the trappings of a high-level language like Python is better. "Better for x," it would seem, is the only type of argument that will be tenable. So, what's an application for a microcontroller that will actually make use of Python's various advantages over BASIC?