Hi, I'm not totally sure what Nerves does for me? My understanding is
that Nerves is something like a mini distro builder, eg openbake (or
whatever it's called?). The target audience I think is where you want
an embedded setup which is TOTALLY erlang only? I did look at it, but
I'm not using it as I need a full linux distro and Elixir would really
be used only as the glue.
I currently build my own embedded distro (starts about 2MB and goes up
from there - full base distro with lots of toys is about 10MB). For
sure the proper embedded guys think that 2MB is crazy big, hence my
caveat. However, given that the average user probably thinks 0.5GB
install is a basic install, I am going out on a limb and calling my 10MB
distro an "embedded" system.
Point though is when I add perl, I have a heavily stripped down unicode
setup (ie I'm stripping many MB off the size, from memory the unicode DB
is about 60MB in perl).
My appeal is that it would be useful to keep sight of such uses of
Elixir (ie Nerves and the like), where the target is a total install
size of some few MBs and be aware that there are some use cases (driving
lego robots) where a full unicode DB isn't needed
Thanks for listening!
Ed W
On 10/05/2016 01:17, Ben Wilson wrote:
http://nerves-project.org/ Enjoy :)
On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 12:36:45 PM UTC-4, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
On 05/05/2016 17:44, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote:
> - when included in the stdlib, compiling/usin Elixir on embedded
devices becomes impossible because of the increased file size.
Head above the parapet, but I would be interested in using Elixir in
some embedded stuff. Object size and runtime size is important. I
guess
I'm not really "embedded" as my linux image sizes are usually 10MB+
(including kernel), but I still want to keep things small when I can.
Having the ability to strip down unicode support may be useful for
some
requirements...
Thanks for consideration...
Ed W
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