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It's for an embedded (SoC) device, so likely they didn't want the overhead of a more managed language.

• dom96 7y ago
  and yet they include Python in the comparison?
  • cyphar 7y ago
    MicroPython is a wholesale rewrite of Python to be suitable for microcontrollers. From memory, the ESA (European Space Agency) uses it for some of their projects.
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• randyrand 7y ago
  He never said it was embedded.
  • reificator 7y ago
    > He never said it was embedded. > We needed a language that was fast enough to allow minimum real-time latency and use limited resources of a SoC device.
    • flukus 7y ago
      SoC also describes a modern phone, rasberry pi, probably even some modern laptops/netbooks. I think it's generally agreed that these are not embedded devices, but the line used to be much blurrier. It sounds like the evaluated their options, added in a few that they were never really going to consider anyway, came to the conclusion that C++ was best but then made up some reasons to use rust anyway.