alt Hacker NewsI needed to whip up a small embedded hardware widget for a very large machinery project and with an Adafruit Feather + MicroPython I had the thing working in a day and respun the schematic into a working board by the end of the week. An RP2040 plus QSPI flash is a freaking dollar in the BOM, and that's priced in onesies from DigiKey.
I'm never going back my old standby (C on an NXP LPC4). This is the new normal and it's fantastic. I'm really excited to see ROMFS working on this part soon.
The best part of this is that, imagine tomorrow you want it running on ESP32 because out of the blue your board is now costly too much (this is just hypothetical: I'm for RP2040/50 for ALL uses but the most cheap requirements that need WiFi). Well, you can adapt it in 5 minutes.