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submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl to c/python

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[–] naonintendois 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What hardware drivers are written in Python? I would assume they're bindings to drivers with a C interface.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I should have been more specific. Yes, it is a wrapper around a closed source blob.

[–] hosaka 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take a look at micropython, some drivers are writing in pure python, I've written a display driver previously

[–] naonintendois 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assumed those were for hobbyists. I would be surprised if that was used in a major product given how many cycles you lose to python implementation.

[–] hosaka 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah you're totally right. Nonetheless the use case has it's place. People buy and use hobbyist hardware, and this is a market on its own.