Yes, thanks. Good link. I do live on the hardware/software frontier and always have.
I'm a big fan of Micropython, Python on bare metal. Noob question: What is the chance of an Erlang VM on bare metal?
Pretty decent chance: https://www.grisp.org/
wow, first I've heard about this. How does this differ from the Nerves project, which also boots directly into the Erlang VM?
Nerves boots into the ErlangVM, but runs on a buildroot Linux. This makes it possible to run on a wide variety of hardware, but with the associated baggage.
GRiSP uses RTEMS[0] as its base which should make its performance more predictable.
http://nerves-project.org/
FWIW, the class for it was the first class to sell out for the upcoming https://elixirconf.com/.
Here's a great presentation by Garth Hitchens on Nerves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O39ipRsXv3Y (he uses it in production at his company, http://www.rosepoint.com/, which builds sort of vertical-market marine navigation hardware). He mentions some performance stats as well.