[robotmay]

I've always thought it a bit of a shame that Ruby isn't more popular for Raspberry Pi projects. I mean, I use it, but the standard is still Python. And Python is great, don't get me wrong, but Ruby is just so much fun for hobby projects.

I used to try to write things in the most popular language for those things, like writing Prometheus exporters in Go. But I eventually realised I just didn't care that much, and now I write them in Ruby, and everything is sunshine and happiness again.

[antifa]

Have you checked if crystal has enough raspberry Pi momentum?

[dnautics]

You should really look into the nerves platform.

[robotmay]

Oh I totally forgot about that - I think I played around with it a few years back. I should check in and see what has changed, it was rather cool.

[dnautics]

Last month I participated in a workshop with nerves + livebook and it was insane.

At the end we did a demo where we clustered all of our pis and we could send messages to each other's lcd screens.

[allcentury]

Can you share the workshop?

[dnautics]

Sorry, I looked for it but I couldn't find it. But the conference was nervesconf.

Edit: protip go to the GitHub of the training person: https://github.com/jjcarstens/nervesconf2021_training