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Metal boots into a persistent native MicroPython REPL

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Adafruit Blog reports on Metal, an experimental async runtime by pymergetic that boots directly into a persistent MicroPython REPL. Built on UEFI/BIOS firmware as its foundation, it's neither a conventional operating system nor anywhere near production-ready. But it does offer an unusual way to interact with Python at the lowest system level, with code now available on GitHub.

Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/07/29/metal-boots-into-a-p...

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