I think the balance will shift here a little, now that the RP2040 has made PIO a rather more mainstream concept. Access to really very high-speed, narrowly-focu

I think the balance will shift here a little, now that the RP2040 has made PIO a rather more mainstream concept. Access to really very high-speed, narrowly-focussed reliable IO timing in the context of an interpreted language seems to me to be a good plan. I gather other microcontrollers have had programmable I/O state machine cores in the past but I'd expect to see a lot more of them (or more documentation and coverage of the ones that exist)