[curryst]

I would tend to disagree because MicroPython is so abstracted that it resembles writing regular Python on a server more than it does anything embedded.

Just as an example, the WiFi setup resembles a server far more than an ESP32 with esp-idf. All you do is give it the connection details, and MicroPython seems to handle the details like trying to reconnect in the background. It's not far off from what systemd-networkd or similar provides. esp-idf forces you to handle that yourself, and to think about what you want to happen in that situation.

MicroPython also doesn't support threads afaict, so you don't even have to handle scheduling threads.

I like MicroPython as a way to run Raspberry Pi like stuff on the cheap, and it's a great learning tool in that sense, but you're still too far from the hardware to really be learning about embedded systems.

[pjmlp]

So like BASIC Stamp and Propeller?

Or like C64, Atari, ZX, Amiga, TI BASIC?