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So is 32bit out of scope? ESP32 devices are increasingly RISC-V but 32bit.

32 bit RISC-V is pretty much limited to microcontrollers. There's no serious projects to create a Linux capable RV32 machine. Only FPGA soft cores and QEMU.

There is micropython, but just from the description, it's a separate project entirely with the same syntax, etc.

> 32 bit RISC-V is pretty much limited to microcontrollers

Hence me explicitly talking about ESP32. I was asking about microcontrollers. I know about micropython. I was asking about CPython.

CPython needs you to also be running an operating system. And while it might be theoretically possible to get a NoMMU Linux running on an ESP32, that's generally not very useful for practical applications compared to micropython or something that's actually designed for a microcontroller.

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