> It’s a really great way to explore devices hardware-wise, without having to write a lot of boilerplate C or rust code on an external development environment.

> It’s a really great way to explore devices hardware-wise, without having to write a lot of boilerplate C or rust code on an external development environment. Yes, second this. It's why I still use Forth. A UART and picocom (for example) and I'm interacting with an MCU. No complex (bloated) tooling needed for prototyping and learning. I've used this with STM32 devices and lately a Raspberry Pi Pico.