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> There is more than enough headroom to make interpretation a viable model for micro controllers, and there is hardly a better way to make the technology more a
by kybernetyk 12y ago
> There is more than enough headroom to make interpretation a viable model for micro controllers, and there is hardly a better way to make the technology more accessible to beginners.
Making tech accessible to beginners is a fair point.
But I don't really buy the headroom argument: There's always the case to use as few resources as possible when it comes to embedded (the micro controller kind of stuff): Power usage. The less overhead your software stack creates the less power your always on/battery powered device will consume.
- centizen 12y agoFor production embedded systems I wholeheartedly agree with you. But for educational platforms, especially those aimed at complete beginners, the trade-off for accessibility could be well worth the excess power consumption.
- DiThi 12y agoCase in point: programming GPIOs with Python in Raspberry Pi. I don't have data but I'd bet it's the most frequent use case after lightweight server and media center.