Roku launches open-source Roku LT OS for creative programmers
14 points by lorddimwit
14 points by lorddimwit
This seems cool, but I really don't understand what "creative programmers" is supposed to mean in this context. Is that embedded systems jargon that I'm too much of a distributed backend guy to understand?
I think it’s in the tagline: “fun, personal engineering projects”. It’s kind of an odd way to position an OS, though. I just skimmed the architecture docs and there’s nothing particularly fun or creative about it. :)
Personally, as soon as I saw it’s yet another C RTOS, I lost interest. Despite the rough edges, I’m fully transitioned to embedded Rust nowadays for my “creative engineering”.
This seems interesting, but from a quick look I'm not sure what it's supposed to do different from, say, Zephyr or FreeRTOS.
Found a table for the latter here: https://github.com/rokudev/lt-sdk/blob/main/LT-OS_Advantages.md#lt-os-vs-freertos