GRiSP: Anyone played with one?

I have one, but i haven’t opened it yet. It supports Elixir, but i am not sure of how documented it is. Assuming there is toolchains for it, Nerves could support it to an extent.

I have one, and have opened it No code written yet though.

I’ll ask what I expect many people are wondering …how does it differ to a Nerves setup?

My understanding so far:

• GRiSP runs the Erlang VM on bare metal, while Nerves boots into Linux and then starts the Erlang VM.
• GRiSP is Erlang-first, while Nerves is Elixir-first.
• GRiSP is a single board, while Nerves supports many boards.

Would Nerves ever support ESP32?

FYI on GRiSP: There’s been some recent discussion of a GRiSP v2 board. The current processor under consideration is a NXP iMX.6, so it could also run Nerves! This is all preliminary, of course, but it’s very exciting to me since it would improve the ability of the Nerves and GRiSP communities to collaborate.

If you’re interested in GRiSP and GRiSP v2, there’s a grisp channel on the Erlang Slack that you may want to join.

-Frank

Nerves is based on the Buildroot distribution of Linux, which has hardware requirements beyond what ESP32 can support (Xtensa MMU, for one).

Thanks Frank! I’m very interested and excited about this for the same reasons you mentioned I’ll join the channel.

There is a project that aims to run BEAM code in small devices, including ESP32: GitHub - atomvm/AtomVM: Tiny Erlang VM · GitHub

I’ve seen that project before and i really hope it takes off. It’s still super early, but i have high hopes for it.