C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.
replyAs a corollary, all processors are C VMs, anyway.
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replyIt may not be an abstraction of a real machine. But the C abstract machine is very close to the foundational idea of how a computer work. And it’s quite easy to bootstrap.
replyImportantly my work involves me often being able to look at C and think about the assembly and back and I regularly work on ESP32, ch42(riscv) and atmega avr8.
replyI couldn't do that with mciropython on any platform.
C is a thin abstraction, python isn't.