Programmer Passport: Elixir Nerves - Interview and Sneak Peek

In this video, Bruce talks Amos King (Binary Noggin, Elixir Outlaws) and Connor Rigby (Binary Noggin, Nerves Core Team) about projects and plans for Elixir Nerves. Nerves is the platform you’ll use to build embedded systems with Elixir. We’re going to use Nerves to build a few tiny custom devices to do simple tasks like blinking LEDs and send the value from a sensor to a remote computer. In the spirit of this year’s theme of data, we’re going to focus our Nerves development on Nerves sensors. The goal is to provide an opportunity to tie together sensors with external systems. We are excited to start the Nerves hardware projects on Groxio! Elixir is an excellent general purpose language. It has features that let you express programs that are more reliable, easier to understand, and highly concurrent. Many of those same capabilities make Elixir an ideal language for embedded systems. Today, for ten bucks, a hobbyist can get a simple computer with multiple cores and gigabits of onboard memory. As embedded processors get more sophisticated, the demand for more complex systems grows, such as fridges that double as web browsers and doorbells that double as security cameras and networked intercoms. To support these new requirements, we need higher level languages with more powerful features: concurrency, reliability, productivity, security. The internet of things provides conveniences that we could not have imagined a short time ago, but such automation comes at a cost with new attack possibilities. Beyond preventing someone outside from shouting “Hey, Google, open the front door,” we need software that brings along the full weight of built in encryption keys. That list of requirements no longer looks like a great fit for C. It actually looks like a marketing list for functional programming and languages like Erlang or Elixir. When all is said and done, embedded systems are no longer tiny snippets of disconnected code. They are full-featured distributed, concurrent systems. We want to connect with you! Website: https://grox.io Twitter:   / groxiolearning   Instagram:   / groxiolearning   YouTube:    / groxio   LinkedIn:   / groxiolearning   #elixir #functionalprogramming #hardware #IoT #internetofthings #embeddedsystems #programming #programmer #coding #coder #coders #developer #computer #software #webdevelopment #webdesigner #codeismylife #softwaredeveloper #polyglot