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| Posted: 09:34am 12 Aug 2021 |
Neither micro-python nor Circuit Python are anything to do with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Their "deliverable" is the H/W, the C SDK, and the various manuals. My experience is that once over various "learning" issues the SDK is pretty robust.
IMHO the whole micro-python thing is an example of uncontrolled open source. It has to be pretty much impossible to support all the platforms that they are attempting with robust good quality and the Pico implementation seems to be an example of this.
I know from my own experience how long it takes to port MMBasic to a new platform and how much scope there is for platform specific errors to creep in.
Moral of the story is that if you want to code on the RP2040 then currently it is only using C where you can be reasonably confident things will work and where you can expect support from the RP2040 developers.