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3 points · Open discussionIs this kinda like the Nerves approach but for Golang? (https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves)
In A native Go userland for your Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 appliancesJust curious -- were you using Nerves[0] for the drone flight controller?
[0]: https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves
In Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?That's incredible, thanks for sharing! Here's the links for the lazy:
https://nerves-project.org/
https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves
In Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020That's essentially what the Nerves Project does [1]. You can boot Phoenix webserver serving static files with zero writes. The root filesystem and server code is written to one of two read-only partitions updated using an A/B scheme. Then a separate ext4 partition is RW and mounted to `/root` by default.
The trick is dealing with stateful apps (e.g. sensors) that write continuously. Power outages are painful on SD cards. Lately I've moved to a separate USB drive for writing bulk sensor data with Pi's. Then the application data partition on the SD card can be used for backup sensor readings -- probably summarized data written rarely to reduce chance of SD card corruption. Mostly when I've had SD card issues its with just the RW partition, specifically the database I'm using gets checksum errors. Never had one not boot due to a bad SD.
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gh I'm contemplating trying out BTRFS mirror'ing on a single USB drive, though bcachefs looks promising once mainlined. It's cheaper to buy two 32GB USB Thumbdrives (mirrored) or even a full usb based ssd than buying an SD card with a large amount of SLC based storage. The new Pi's will be a significant upgrade in speed with external USB SSD/Thumbdrives.
1: https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves/blob/master/docs/Ad...
Honestly Elixir has been one of the most enjoyable learning experiences I've had in years. Deployment is fine, but there are a few different things to consider (because you can do some really cool stuff using BEAM). But you can just chuck it on Heroku if you want something easy.
I also like Rust a lot, but I find Elixir pretty much frictionless to work in. Rust is basically you vs the compiler for quite a while. I've been using Rust for IoT work but I vastly prefer Elixir for web. And since I've been enjoying it so much I'm gonna start looking at Nerves (https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves) for IoT work as well.
In Moving on from Rails and What’s NextLooks interesting thanks
http://nerves-project.org/
https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves
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