Someone who knows more about the details than I do may correct me, but I think that the choice they were making was whether to support 32 bit systems with one toolchain and 64 bit systems with a different toolchain, or just to target one - it would probably have taken twice the amount of time and effort to continue to support both.
That Raspberry Pi chose to create a VS Code extension which only runs on 64-bit, when it could have otherwise run on 32-bit, is down to them alone.
I suspect that many, if not most, of the 'home users, hobbyists, and makers' will be using Micropython, rather than a compiled language - I certainly would for my project if I hadn't needed precise timing. To me, using Code and/or a compiled language makes you a fairly serious developer!That may be the case, but most users of Pico-range products will be home users, hobbyists and makers, schools and students, not professional or serious developers.In fairness to the Pi folks, I imagine that they believe that most serious developers (including them) are using or will very shortly be moving to the bigger, faster, 64 bit systems for development, and it is certainly rational to believe this.
They may only make up 30% of Raspberry Pi's target market but should be considered and catered for IMO.
Those numbers are somewhat irrelevant, since they reflect the entire Pi universe. We are discussing a significant expenditure of time and energy that would (arguably) benefit only a very small subset of Pi users.Raspberry Pi is a publicly listed entity with a $689 million valuation, with revenue of $144 million and gross profit of $34 million in the first half of 2024. If there is any limitation on resources it would seem to be self-imposed.Given that they have limited resources to devote to developing tools ...
Statistics: Posted by pfletch101 — Sat Nov 16, 2024 7:26 pm