[elcritch]

Yes, Nerves is an Elixir project. Essentially it’s a wrapper around Buildroot + Elixir based runtime stack + Firmware management. Extremely convenient and could be helpful for the OP as there’s good support for Beaglebone’s, but you do need to know/write some Elixir to use it.

Though it’s entirely possible to have Elixir run say python or any other scripting language via ports. Perhaps one day someone will make a general purpose runtime image from it.