3DS homebrew - only with C++?

[Ondrashek06]

I want to try making a homebrew app, but is the only accepted language C++? I know some Python (and PHP too, but I doubt that it'll be useful in the console space). You might tell me "just learn C++", but C++ has concepts like pointers that I don't really fully understand yet.

 

[FAST6191]

C might be a bit easier than C++ and will also work for this, though it too uses pointers (a very useful concept, though a noted stumbling block for some).

That said there is a python interpreter
https://github.com/vbe0201/3DS.py
It won't allow full access to the power of the system but should allow things to be run.

There is also Lua in its usual various guises
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Lua_Player_Plus_3DS
https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/lpp-3ds
https://lovebrew.org/#/
https://ctrulua.github.io/

Some other interpreted languages are probably available but I have not looked at that much here compared to the DS https://gbatemp.net/threads/attempt...amming-languages-available-for-the-ds.357792/