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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Diversity - good or bad ?
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:48:41 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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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	
	}
-- 
Canada is all right really, though not for the whole weekend.

"Saki"