I took an embedded C/C++ class online 5-10 years ago and hated it. I dont want to be doing bit shifting math to put some device's registers in the correct state for me to write text to a screen
Python is great in many ways, but anything with a garbage-collector or JIT has fundamental problems with parallelism and or real-time environments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_domain_crossing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability_(electronics)
I would never claim to know what I am talking about, but reliance on other peoples hobby projects can inject naive/unstable dependencies into your long-term work.
This list of rules applies to most languages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...
A bit of history where these rules came from, and why they matter.
"Why Fighter Jets Ban 90% of C++ Features"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljww
The basis of the cited 10 rules helped form many standards for reliable code:
https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
Good luck, and I agree dealing with bitmap multi-language fonts is difficult without a header template generator. imagemagick can build this for you with a bit of one-time scripting, but it always eats up a lot of rom memory. =3