Yeah, it's been quite a while since the first release and I haven't posted here as it wasn't very stable at all, but now all bugs I could find are gone.
It's a port of micropython, specifically for microcontrollers and due to the working integration of newlib and a "real" nio_use_stdio with the help of libsyscalls it could be ported quite easily. I added a small set of 2d functions to test the performance with mandelbrot and now it seems to be quite useful, and it's actually used by students already!
You can use a text editor to write .py.tns files and execute them directly (due to the file association) or use micropython in interactive mode.
It's using a heavily modified version of nspire-io for line history and I also changed the input method to be more PC-like (hold shift for upper case, for example). tab inserts 4 spaces for easier intendation.




More in-depth information on ti-planet: http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=15140 and http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=15309

Is there documentation for the nsp module? (Also, how do you exit an infinate loop?)

Wow, this is cool! Will it work for grayscale models?

Pretty cool stuff!

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Is there documentation for the nsp module?

here

I wouldn't exactly call that documentation...

I would. Is something crucial missing? Functions like setPx should be fairly simple to use.

Yes, there isn't anything else in nsp yet (except for nsp.readRTC(), but that's not really useful and not documented anywhere).

Ah, I see. and are you going to make the on button be ctrl-c? Other wise an infinite loop requires a reset, correct?

Exactly. Shouldn't be hard to do, it has a dedicated IRQ (power management).

This is really promising. I am curious how fast this will run compared to Lua and C?

There are some graphs on ti-planet, although it changed a bit. There are three modes in micropython:
-Bytecode-Interpreter: A bit slower than Lua
-Native (generates ARM code): A lot faster than lua (dependant on code)
-Viper (generates optimized ARM code): Almost like native, although variables must have types assigned to them

It would definitively be a great alternative for those who prefer Python and I know that at one point or another, Omnimaga always had its share of Python users.

Glad this is still being updated, by the way. I wish you good luck on this.

Yeah, with a lot of other stuff to do work will be slow, but present