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Does it make any sense for trio to support micropython?
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Description
I don't really know anything about micropython, but @pfalcon recently brought to my attention that they have their own incompatible variant of asyncio, uasyncio, which makes interesting choices like leaving out Futures altogether.
This leads me to wonder: how well trio would work on micropython? I'm not thinking of any ridiculously spendthrift data structures... we do currently splurge on a sortedcontainers.SortedDict for tracking timeouts instead of a traditional heap, in order to get O(1) removal of stale entries, but that's a pretty self-contained bit of code and certainly not visible to users. OTOH there are probably another thousand things I'm not thinking of that would make microcontroller devs gasp in horror :-). Anyway, it'd be interesting to know what would be required to make it work, or why concretely it couldn't work, so maybe we can collect any notes on that here in this issue.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by comparing Trio's stated dependencies and implementation assumptions with MicroPython and its uasyncio variant, including the SortedDict timeout-tracking concern; done means documenting concrete compatibility requirements or blockers.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- embedded-iot
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100