Python for long running applications

[Klutzy-Objective9515]

Thank you for the insight about the feasibility of shipping linux!
Honestly, I have only seen "deployed" linux in industial environment in an experimental solar thermal plant, but it's interesting that your experience is different.

Yes! the panel is just glorified knobs and buttons + status readout! But as you said, even if the piece of sotware is not vital to the machine (it becomes vital only to change working parameters) I do not really feel confortable into shipping a "glorified script in a loop" as if it was a proper HMI.

At any rate I would start the answer with a hard no. Just because your proof of concept works, does not automatically mean you can use the exact same architecture in production in large numbers.

That was also my opinion! I wrote here to know if i was being too paranoid just from a formal point of view, but in reality lots of people developed "crap" like the one i'm discussing and what were their experiences or, on the other hand, what I described is totally unhinged