We’re not sure exactly what Tulip is, because it’s so many things all at once. It’s a music-making environment that’s programmable in Python, runs on your big computer or on an ESP32-S3 ...

Oh, no. MicroPython on the esp32 is so much more enjoyable than C/C++ (I’ve programmed professionally in C/C++ for several decades). I’ve now done stuff where speed matters in MicroPython, ...