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by bhaney 974 days ago
> I think it's that AtomVM is erlang specific

I see plenty of references to Elixir in the docs, and this official AtomVM project to provide some tooling to target AtomVM from Elixir

https://github.com/atomvm/ExAtomVM
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magicalhippo 974 days ago
As someone who's yet to play with Erlang and Elixir, is the bytecode lean or fluffy? Microcontrollers often have somewhat limited Flash storage, and I see they have 512kB as bare minimum with 1MB recommended for the VM itself.

Will that extra 512kB be enough for fun stuff?

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unwind 974 days ago
Good question!

I'm not a BEAM developer, but a quick search found this [1] which was very informative. My classification would be "quite fluffy", but that's of course highly subjective and the language/platform has quite a lot of features that it needs to support so I wasn't expecting CHIP-8, exactly.

[1]: https://gomoripeti.github.io/beam_by_example/

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