Re: Diversity - good or bad ?

On 12/01/2025 20:46, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:09:56 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

GPIO on a PI under linux is a breeze.

 I was surprised. It has limits compared to a Pico since the machine does
have other tasks to perform rather than being dedicated.
 

Picos are not bad either.
>
The Pico is an adventure to get anything going without using the ghastly
python, which is slow and limited

 It depends on the application. For many things Python is perfectly fine.
You need the ability to determine when it isn't and act accordingly.
MicroPython or CircuitPython abstracts away much of the low level cruft.
otoh working with the C SDK is like building a wall a brick at a time.
  

I wanted my picos to show up in my routers DHCP tables as something other than whatever is the default. Python could not do it. C could.
static void set_hostname(char * hostname)
{
struct netif *n;
// set hostname
cyw43_arch_lwip_begin();
n = &cyw43_state.netif[CYW43_ITF_STA];
netif_set_hostname(n, hostname);
netif_set_up(n);
cyw43_arch_lwip_end();
// end set hostname
}
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