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Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com> writes:
> In the context of my reply, trying to get a full Ada environment
> working on a board that doesn't already have one is not a beginner
> friendly project (and that is not limited to just Ada).

I'd say in general that dealing with getting a toolchain of any sort
working for an embedded board is a separate set of headaches over and
above actually programming the thing.  So it's nice when the tools are
already installed.

I like the Adafruit boards that way.  They already have Circuit Python
and you can just plug them into a USB port and start typing at them
interactively.  The MCU flash memory appears on your computer like a USB
flash drive, so you can drag and drop Python files to it, and execute
them on the MCU board, etc.  Python is not that great for hard realtime
stuff, but those boards are a very sweet setup in other regards.