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Sorry if I offended anyone by using the term "embedded systems" in this context. I think of an embedded system as a large umbrella group for application-specifi
by kevlar1818 10y ago
Sorry if I offended anyone by using the term "embedded systems" in this context. I think of an embedded system as a large umbrella group for application-specific hardware/firmware configurations; maybe that definition doesn't hold water. It certainly differs from the popular "real-time performance" definition, which I believe is just a large sub-group of embedded systems.
I've altered the title of the post to use Nerves' actual tagline.
Disclaimer: I work for a company whose products are based around SoCs running Linux for soft-real-time applications, and we whole-heartedly call these products embedded systems.
- joezydeco 10y agoI don't think it was offensive at all. The smartphone/SoC era has just blurred the lines. We can now have dedicated application processors that do incredible things, stuff that was inconceivable a decade ago.
- Cyph0n 10y agoNah, not at all, I just felt that it was slightly misleading. I for one expected Elixir running on a microcontroller, similar to MicroPython [1]. [1]: https://micropython.org/ https://micropython.org/