MicroPython was created by Damien George in 2013 In response, Scott and Limor gave a fascinating look at the origins of CircuitPython and the decision to spin it off into a separate project.

MicroPython also provides a host of features and is able to take advantage of the same libraries available for Python. In addition, it’s portable and can be used on a variety of microcontrollers ...

The MicroPython v1.23 release, with its AMP support, will be available for a range of popular multi-core microcontroller boards. These include the Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi, Portenta H7, and Nicla Vision.

For those of you unfamiliar with CircuitPython it is an open-source derivative of the MicroPython programming language targeted toward students and beginners.