Is it possible to keep MicroPython installed on the Pico and also program using Arduino?

@sealyons62

Its not possible, best to get 2 pico's (at least) and to dedicate one to for arduino use, and the other for mp.

@byron I thought I ran across something the other day that said it could, so a googling I went.

It's a longish rambling read, but the magic words 'it works' is in the thread. at LINK  you know I am not mp knowledgeable or C SDK but it looks to me that somebody got something to work maybe?

@zander @sealyons62

I'll let the OP read your link to see if the discussion is anything of interest.  

It seems it is some quite advanced programming when mp was run on one core and c on the other. Its not an everyday programming exercise thats for sure and makes use of hippy's bespoke code (a well known and advanced programmer in c and mp).  It was certainly not done with using the arduino IDE.  

I doubt if it has any bearing on what the OP is after and if you get to trying the sort of thing in the link then one would probably be familiar with recompiling the mp code to include c programs or modules which is readily done.  

The question the OP asks indicates that he/she is not at that advanced stage at this point in time.   The link does not address the question of doing some programming in mp and then switching to using the arduino2 IDE to load some arduino c / c++ code.  Still a nope on that one 🙂 

@byron Yes, I can see it's quite advanced, but I thought it was worthwhile to put it out there that it can be done with enough education and experience. I doubt I would ever need that, and if I do, hopefully, there will be better, easier-to-use tools to accomplish it.