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Not related to the project in any way, but I would say that if the hardware is running on CPython bytecode, I’d say that’s as far as it can get for executing Python directly – AFAIK running python code with the `python3` executable also compiles Python code into bytecode `*.pyc` files before it runs it. I don’t think anyone claims that CPython is not running Python code directly…

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I agree with you, if it ran pyc code directly I would be okay saying it "runs python".

However it doesn't seem like it does, the pyc still had to be further processed into machine code. So I also agree with the parent comment that this seems a bit misleading.

I could be convinced that that native code is sufficiently close to pyc that I don't feel misled. Would it be possible to write a boot loader which converts pyc to machine code at boot? If not, why not?

Well it really does not run CPython, but CPython bytecode, compiled down to an assembler. Granted, a very specific, tailored assembler, but still.

Anyway, the project is mega-cool, and very useful (in some specific applications). Is just that the title is a little bit confusing.

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