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In my experience the embedded community is extremely traditional, and most projects are built using C with static memory allocation. There is a lot of excitemen
by oomkiller 10y ago
In my experience the embedded community is extremely traditional, and most projects are built using C with static memory allocation. There is a lot of excitement around Nerves in the Elixir community though, so be on the look out. I think outside of the traditional community effects, having a garbage collector (even one that's designed for soft-realtime like Erlang) really kills the deal.
- petra 10y agoThere are actor frameworks in c++ like caf and theron, not sure how simple to use though. As for garbage collection - that's a problem, but maybe with the right dual core mcu with 400Kram(a $2 esp32) and some fancy concurrent garbage collection this will work well ? Also at first i'm not sure this should be aimed at the embedded community, more towards the maker community.
- phamilton 10y agoErlang provides soft realtime guarantees. GC is extremely light (it's per actor) and often this is sufficient.
- spdegabrielle 10y agoErlang isn't the problem - it's the ubiquity of pi0 like platform that can make it a reality in the MC space. You can't run Erlang on the 8 and 16 bit MC's that are currently used in embedded products. This won't change till you can run Erlang on arduino.