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> designed for people who know Python, and are hesitant to learn another language, or expand their toolbox I've been in this position and all I'd say is a litt

> designed for people who know Python, and are hesitant to learn another language, or expand their toolbox I've been in this position and all I'd say is a little more complicated than that. I'm happy to learn other languages (in fact I am learning Rust at the moment), however I opt for CircuitPython a lot of the time because theres a job I need doing. Expanding your toolbox is great, and often having a project to work on with whatever your learning is a great way to do that, but sometimes you just have a job that needs doing, and in that case a language thats both fast to work with and your familiar with seems like an ideal choice, as long as your aware of the drawbacks of it.

calvinmorrison 4y ago
Especially for prototyping. Here I am working on a widget, it takes some sensors and runs some output. Well, I can prototype basically the whole thing using adafruit boards, quic i2c connectors, and do it relatively cheap. Chips are cheap! If I wanted to actually mass produce this, we would make our own PCB, integrate all the sensors onto a single board, and so forth, but for playing around with a concept? Yeah, I'll take adafruit and some adapters any day. (Currently doing this right now for a pressure sensor that predates standard MAP sensors but operates similarly). If the concept is right... then we can think about making it for real real