[bhaney]

Nerves is a framework meant to run on relatively beefy embedded systems (not microcontrollers) and uses the normal BEAM. AtomVM is its own VM suitable for running on microcontrollers in much more resource constrained environments than Nerves could ever get close to running on.

[davidw]

It'd be nice to have an 'at a glance' comparison between standard Erlang and this, to get a better idea of what's going on.

I don't know if "kind of like language X, but cut down and missing some stuff" environments have a great track record. Especially if the runtime is not the tried and true one with a lot of the kinks worked out.