depthcharge VS prometeo

I have a BeagleBone Black (BBB) board and I am trying to use a toolkit called Depthcharge to evaluate U-boot. I downloaded the following image for BBB and flashed it to an SD Card and inserted it in the board. Depthcharge has a Python script that needs to reach the U-boot shell in order to work, but it can't do it. When I manually observe the booting sequence, I notice

for router 4: when booting you should be able to get into a u-boot shell by hitting any key within the first few seconds after applying power Then U-Boot Depthcharge can be used to automate the process of figuring out what you can do with the u-boot shell, ie what commands are available, dump the flash, find any hidden commands etc. Lots of fun, and only the basics of command line/python proficiency required to use it (aside from computer/VM running Linux and a USB to UART)

Not impossible but I guess you might end up with an extra runtime layer and some more dynamic operations will not be very fast. Or you restrict it to a subset of Python like this project does: https://github.com/zanellia/prometeo

You could of course write a bytecode VM in Golang but I guess that defeats the purpose.

Honest question: How does pycom compare to similar tools like Nuitka, prometeo, or mypyc?

If you don't mind switching to a little different syntax of Python, then you also might want to take a look at prometeo - an embedded domain specific language based on Python, specifically aimed at scientific computing. Prometeo programs transpile to pure C code and its performance can be comparable with hand-written C code.

This is awesome! The direction of using a subset of python, while leveraging the user base and static typing to accomplish some other everyday task in a different language is very legit IMO.

I took a cursory look at:

https://github.com/zanellia/prometeo/blob/master/prometeo/cg...

It seems quite similar in spirit to

https://github.com/adsharma/py2many/blob/main/pyrs/transpile...

I'm not spending much time on py2many last few months (started a new job). Let me know if any of it sounds useful - especially the ability to transpile to 7-8 languages including Julia, C++ and Rust.