Yes and much more straight forward to interface with hardware - but also requires some level of exp with said low level languages. Arduino did a lot to reduce

Yes and much more straight forward to interface with hardware - but also requires some level of exp with said low level languages. Arduino did a lot to reduce barrier to entry to the uC world - but even that requires you to understand a little of how C++ works once you move beyond blinky. These (micropython, this project, Lua ) etc lower the barrier to entry even further. The trade off of course is how well they run and how much of the hardware is exposed (register manipulation etc) if you want to get to it...