Damien announced MicroPython on python-list earlier this week:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pytho ... 72994.html . Discussion quickly moved from MicroPython itself to discussion of Python3 vs Unicode, which is common flame topic there nowadays.
Related thread was also started (by interested community member(s), which is good sign) on python-dev:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pytho ... 34718.html . Again, it went as far as questioning why did Python3 did all that unicode to its loyal users
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Shortly after the announcement, it went on HackerNews:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7840566 and stayed good deal of the day at the top. It's not the first time uPy is on HN (I believe original Kickstarter and initial source code release were there too), and there's consistently growing interest (440 pints/93 comments this time). I also saw some of contributors on the comments - thanks (I then concentrated on Python list replies).
We were also in Github "trending projects" list, reaching #2. We also surpassed 1K stars, 200 watches, 125 forks there.
Overall, I would say the responsive is productively good - there were few undue optimistic expectations expressed, but overall, it's more of technical interest and good community relation. I *absolutely* didn't see anything which could be classified as negative response, despite the fact that I expect responses along the lines of "why the heck it's needed", "why the heck you don't work with older projects", "Python on MCU is ridiculous", "why the heck it's needed if there's Lua", etc. Again, nothing like that at all. Only technical or just neutral comparisons and affirmation that it's good idea for MicroPython to have its own implementation way.
With all surface value above, we of course looked to grow our community, in particular, developers and contributors. Some results are seen already - there're various cleanups and portability patches, and interested community members started on adding Unicode support:
https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/657 ,
https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/671
So, we're on good way to make the project sustainable, and let's follow this way - please post about your MicroPython-related projects on your blog and on forum:
http://forum.micropython.org/viewforum.php?f=5 , mention it on other forums, etc.
Thanks to everyone involved!