You're right of course, but if you pick up a 2040 and you're a newbie to microcontrollers (as I am), all of the documentation and first-party tools push you tow

You're right of course, but if you pick up a 2040 and you're a newbie to microcontrollers (as I am), all of the documentation and first-party tools push you towards using Python, which I've never been too fond of and I started looking for alternatives as soon as I finished the last chapter of the manual. The alternatives are always there but they presume a level of experience (and C skills) that I just don't have. Having experimented with Zig I was glad to eventually find MicroZig. I remember that using it wasn't quite as easy as "push button, watch LED blink" as it was when I was using Python and Thonny but if a n00b like me could figure it out, anyone can.