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I don't think there's any merit to your argument here. If the headline had said "designing hardware circuits", that would be another story entirely.

> “Programming Hardware” the way it’s used here is pretty much the same as vanilla python

One can only hope so, since the project is a fork of MicroPython. Neither CPython or MicroPython are meant to be a long departure from Python itself.

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At a minimum it's unnecessarily vague--hardware is far too broad when it's really just microprocessors. For that matter, in the way they use it, "programming hardware" applies to all code that runs on a computer.

Anyway, my first impression was same as parent's, write Python get hardware.

> If the headline had said "designing hardware circuits", that would be another story entirely.

It almost does though. The name of the project has "circuit" in it (I guess because of Arduino applications or something?), and if you are confused why we're talking about circuits, well you can read on where the title goes on to double down on being about "programming hardware".

> I don't think there's any merit to your argument here. If the headline had said "designing hardware circuits", that would be another story entirely.

One does not "program hardware" except maybe in a CPLD. You cannot write code for a resistor or a tranzistor. You program maybe the microcontroller which is present on the board.

Neither CPython or MicroPython are meant to be a long departure from Python itself.

CPython IS the normal Python you get from python.org, It's only ever called CPython when discussing it in the context of other pythons like MicroPython, PyPy, Jython, etc.

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