> > In terms of safety, is there better memory allocation and hardware control through Python? > These are not what is usually understood by "safety" in program

> > In terms of safety, is there better memory allocation and hardware control through Python? > These are not what is usually understood by "safety" in programming. In many embedded and RTOS contexts, safety and allocation and hardware control are very difficult to distinguish. > > As for the ease of development, wouldn't C/++ be better? > Generally speaking python is more expressive and more readable than C++ code, which makes it easier to write (develop) Python. C++ is more finicky, thus harder to develop. C++ is a huge pain with loose type casting behavior (e.g. is this an long or does this expression convert it to an unsigned long?). But then again Python has very _loose_ descriptions of int and float types at all. For me that makes doing bit manipulation for talking to peripherals more opaque rather than less so.