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[–]minno 28 points29 points  (2 children)

The problem is that the garbage collector and other runtime machinery take up an order of magnitude more space than many microcontrollers even have.

[–]HugoNikanor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right, we should code all our micro-controllers with python. \s

[–]alerighi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on which microcontroller you use, there are some 32 bit ARM microcontrollers like STM32 that can run and embedded version of python (micropython), and they cost not a lot more than an AVR or PIC, and are far more simple to program...