I think Nerves is cool because it really lowers the conceptual overhead for the cohort of web developers using Elixir to hack on hardware projects. There was a

I think Nerves is cool because it really lowers the conceptual overhead for the cohort of web developers using Elixir to hack on hardware projects. There was a whole track on Nerves at ElixirConf in Bellevue last year, and I saw a ton of people who'd never done anything with hardware get really excited about it. The keynote by the Nerves creator Justin Schneck was particularly good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd_EIWU9GzQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd_EIWU9GzQ