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Does it have distribution and fault tolerance like Nerves on Elixir aside from having an LGPL vs. Apache (Nerves) license?

It may be fast, but how does it compare to Nerves for highly-distributed, swarm or fault-tolerant networks using many IoT devices for distributed control and information and gathering?

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Nerves (or Erlang’s VM BEAM) is nowhere near small enough to run on ESP32. I think a comparison is not very useful.

If you have an ESP32 you need something like Toit, if you have a Raspberry Pi you might as well run embedded Linux (with Nerves on top).

I agree, but I saw the defense that Toit wasn't just for ESP32. I have been playing with ESP chips since first tinkering with them over 8 years ago. C is fine when you're that small, Lua or even ulisp [1], forth, etc. Why Toit? Bowery Farming uses Elixir Nerves for their network of small interconnected devices to run their vertical, indoor farming operations, and I think others are looking to shrink it.

[1] http://www.ulisp.com/

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