My industry routinely has to have electrician install additional controllers (basically just a Linux industrial computer) on customer sites because the ones already there won’t support our software. With this, I could imagine just shipping a binary on a flash drive that the customer can run on whatever they have on site. There is nothing stopping that other than it’s too hard to build our software for hundreds of hardware and OS combinations. With this you probably only need to build a handful of artifacts. It would save thousands per install.
If there were a plug-in system to be able to run different languages than Lua, that would be cool too, but maybe I’ll have to learn Lua.
That sounds like a good fit for redbean. How often are those industrial computers updated? I ask because backwards compatibility has always been a focus of the project. redbean runs on RHEL5+ (c. 2007) and Windows Vista+ (c. 2006) by default. See https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/#support-vector Lua is real nice and I offer support services too. See my email at https://github.com/jart/
Yea, I’m going to look at it more, but sometimes those computers are a few years old, many of them are on ARM too. Having windows supper would really open doors, because our software is designed to be the low cost solution and if we could even run it on several redundant office computers then even that would be sufficient for our business needs and though it sounds crazy I just think it might work.
If there were a plug-in system to be able to run different languages than Lua, that would be cool too, but maybe I’ll have to learn Lua.