Google is the worst hacker. This seems repulsively dystopian to me in the broad philosophical scope. Like when did it become reasonable to create such deep interconnectivity with something that should be a door to public commons, fundamental communication, and a portal for shopping for goods. I just want my tool chain to be MY tool chain. The stalkerware built into popular IDE’s is my most off putting aspect of hobby electronics. A web browser as an IDE is full circle, the peak autonomy/human rights violation for me.
This leads toward my favorite thing about circuitpython: it shows up as a flash drive (unless you disable that feature, which you can also reenable without having to reflash the device). You write code in whatever editor you want, you drag and drop (or
cp,rsync, etc.), and that’s it. No need to install integrations, or apps that automatically install ampy behind the scenes and automaticallyampy putfor you. A usb drive makes all of that complexity unnecessary. Copy to a drive is almost the simplest interface imaginable, and also will work on every device (one of the selling points of the IDE shown in this article).
