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Doesn't this depend highly on whether that resource usage is worth the tradeoff of developer productivity? Python devs are much more plentiful and easier to hir
by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Doesn't this depend highly on whether that resource usage is worth the tradeoff of developer productivity? Python devs are much more plentiful and easier to hire, and if you now need a $1 microcontroller instead of a $0.5, and you're selling 100k units, that's a $50k cost.
It really depends here. The lower the volume, tighter the iteration time, etc the more sense it makes. I know oil rigs, for example, have a bunch of rpis running on them, because the manufacturer is selling a $100k box and any amount of time spent shaving $10 off the BOM is really not worth it at all.
- seabird 3y agoYou can't just make a firmware developer out of anybody by slapping a more widely used language on a microcontroller, because the language isn't the issue. "Embedded" development on a highly specced SBC running Linux (like a Raspberry Pi) is a long ways away from what MicroPython is targeting.
- the__alchemist 3y agoDo you think using Python make programmers more productive? I find it's the opposite, due to finding bugs one-by-one as they show up at run time.