Totally agree here - IMO MicroPython is great for simplifying embedded development for beginners and broadening the group of people who are interested in taking

Totally agree here - IMO MicroPython is great for simplifying embedded development for beginners and broadening the group of people who are interested in taking the plunge. Arduino had/has the same impact (both the hardware simplicity and C SDKs in the IDE). It's intimidating jumping into embedded if step 1 is "use the vendor-supplied startup code to enter into `main()`, then start writing baremetal C with so-so (and in some cases no) C lib support owing to being on a resource constrained platform." MicroPython doesn't offer a full Python standard lib implementation, but the standard Python syntax is definitely more accessible to a broader group of developers who may not be familiar with C or Rust. OpenMV has used MicroPython to great effect. It's really impressive what they've done, especially in the realm of porting vision algorithms to constrained platforms like Cortex-M's.