Exploring Nerves and Performance in Elixir with Justin Schneck and Frank Hunleth

In this podcast episode, Justin Schneck and Frank Hunleth from the Nerves team dive into various aspects of their work with Elixir, focusing on performance issues, the transition to hardware, and recent breakthroughs. They discuss how Elixir handles performance across different devices, solving early boot time discrepancies between PCs and Raspberry Pi boards, and the challenges with the system registry model. Other topics include hardware requirements for specific tasks, merging Erlang into hard real-time, and exciting new developments in the Nerves community. The episode also touches on lessons learned from moving from OTP to functional programming in Elixir and the release of a new networking stack.