Readit NewsSo you are telling me the can get the data my Facebook, Google and any other US company without my consent but in this case it's somehow actually enforced?
If they can get the data without a user's consent, then it's independent of this new feature and thus unrelated. If you believe that the government has unlimited access, then it was most likely already possible before this feature.
Now, there is at least a "proper" way to give law enforcement access.
What's the advantage over MicroPython?
Speed and reliability.
We found that Python isn't really designed for constrained environments. The object model, in particular, makes it hard to have fast method calls. The memory layout is also affected by the language, leading to bigger objects and a worse GC.
If you are just running a small hello world, or a number crunching loop, then both languages behave similarly. However, if you actually want to run something more consequential in production you will have an easier time with Toit.
A similar project: https://toitlang.org (or https://toit.io).
Currently it's only targeting the ESP32 family, but the code is pretty portable. By default, it probably also needs more resources due to OS-like abstractions, allowing for multiple containers to run on parallel, etc. Obviously that also brings some nice advantages. For example, installing or updating, a new container is just a few lines of code.
We have been working on it for more than 5 years now, and it's definitely at a stage where lots of projects would benefit from it.
> I want to learn Dutch and by experience I know I learn better when talking with native speakers.
If you are learning Dutch to talk to native speakers then why don't you talk to native speakers. You clearly plan to find actual people to talk to at some point right? So go ahead and do it
You will improve your language skills this way, but if your skill level isn't high enough it's going to be exhausting to the native speaker as well.
I have been living in Denmark for 15 years now, and it's still easier to do conversations in English. When I speak Danish it requires more mental capacity from the other side.
I am speaking Danish from time to time, but it's only to get better at it. The English proficiency in Denmark (and probably the Netherlands) is so high that you need to be really good at the native tongue before it is easier than English in conversations.
Its maintainer now requests $1000 for approval of PRs.
Here is an example where they reject a small PR to add loongarch64 support from individual contributor: https://github.com/shibatch/sleef/pull/672