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I don't know much about erlang or elixir. Erlang was popular at work for a short period of time, but I think more people are fans of Haskell now (seems Scala ma

I don't know much about erlang or elixir. Erlang was popular at work for a short period of time, but I think more people are fans of Haskell now (seems Scala may even be falling out of favor a bit). As Seren said, C is pretty much defacto at the moment. C has a fairly large community. What would be gained by using Erlang? My understanding is that Erlang is geared toward distributed systems. I can absolutely imagine an massively distributed control system would benefit from Erlang. If you think of 'robotics' like cars where there is essentially a different robot for each control, maybe Erlang is a good fit. If the device is going to have a single CPU, maybe not so much. It really depends on the application and the architecture, but to me, Erland isn't a natural choice.

merdreubu 10y ago
You get a lot from Erlang VM. Among other things: by far the best VM instrumentation out there, rock solid stability, fault tolerance and hot code loading, exemplified in this little video of a drone in-flight flying control system upgrade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UzSHyp0F8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UzSHyp0F8 On the Elixir side of things, there's something like the Rails of embedded development in the making, a project called Nerves. This is a recent presentation on the project: Justin Schneck - Enhanced Embedded Systems with Nerves (ElixirConfEU 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=118-g0ODfgg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=118-g0ODfgg