Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now? Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:31:27 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: <87eg39nusw.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <840cddee-749a-4aab-9644-4cfe42371840@googlegroups.com> <5fbfa685-6b97-4f6b-bb09-31f6d7e152f4@googlegroups.com> <49524e24-d693-41a1-b735-f85da37f93ca@googlegroups.com> <20160910133738.7385696c@HP-6550b> <87y42zijpi.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> <8a35ccd9-6f4e-4627-af76-2a906d1fb469@googlegroups.com> <68b77e8d-1a48-4a93-acf8-5f40c131f51a@googlegroups.com> <8737jspxpr.fsf@nightsong.com> <2bd9a162-5aa3-41a8-8279-0d275443d3f9@googlegroups.com> <20161020100051.795a847e@HP-6550b> <2a2eb65c-9048-4c1e-904b-a41fbcb88b78@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="fa514a16e0634e132e320287686e3191"; logging-data="18157"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/BzDiE+27cM8/6Z6UT8g+n" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LX5PfS8fydy1f33kJ33PBVzotiA= sha1:NYfZyjj8cPv4H2EGewPII0FgufY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:52100 JUERGEN writes: > [Microbit] As said before, there are many here it seems who think it > is not a good product - sorry but they are commenting in the wrong > thread as there are a million boards against them. I don't think anyone has said the Microbit is a bad product, just that it's a bit expensive for what you get, and that there's other boards of similar cost and power requirements but with more hardware resources. Yes there were a lot of them given away in schools but I wonder how many people bought them with personal funds, making it more likely that they'll be used. I think it will mostly be programmed in MicroPython which it's barely powerful enough to run (MicroPython had to be hacked a lot to fit in the Microbit). It wouldn't surprise me if there's more Arduinos than Microbits out there, and Arduinos run Forth perfectly well too. So I'd be more likely to pick a cheaper board than the Microbit for Forth, or a more powerful one for MicroPython. If they do a next-generation Microbit maybe they'll pick an MCU with more memory. That will make it more interesting. Meanwhile there is a German version now: http://hackaday.com/2016/10/18/germans-react-to-uks-microbit/