I guess they're very much related, given that they're both tools to flash images to an esp32. But from checking the repo, this seems to be an effort by the tinygo people to extend the embedded go ecosystem.
I can't imagine this taking strong hold in the US unless it shields physicians from legal consequences of false negatives or produces enough false positives to ensure revenue doesn't fall.
I don't see any way that the hospital systems running healthcare in the US would embrace a technology that reduces false positives (income) without decreasing false negatives (risk and lost income) at least as much.
But you're not having cancer checked out, you're having a "spot" or a "nodule" or something checked out.
And the person that's making the recommendation on whether or not to check it out may get sued for $10M if they tell you it's probably nothing and they're wrong, but have no harm come to them if they tell you it's worth having some other doctor do a biopsy.
And they might make an extra couple hundred bucks every time you have to come back and see them to follow up on this spot.
And the radiologist interpreting the MRIs... the same perverse incentives regarding how they interpret a "spot."
I'd argue that malpractice risk has at least as much negative influence on a physicians judgment.
It's perceived as much less (medico-legally) risky to "do something" (or more often "refer the patient to someone else to do something") than not do something.
Like when someone has an anaphylactic reaction to the contrast dye for their CT?
Contrast-induced nephropathy?
Gadolinium accumulation in the brain doesn't sound good for you...
Although I think this argument is usually talking about the risks of the resulting procedures (eg an injury or complication related to a biopsy done for a finding on imaging).
Not to mention the malpractice risk and potential for extra income, which -- depending on where you live -- may strongly (if subconsciously) influence your physicians interpretations and recommendations.
Do you think a doctor is more likely to call something "possible cancer" and recommend that you either have a specialist do a biopsy (keeping in mind that many of these will be... hard to reach) or at least have a follow up MRI in 3, 6, 9 months?
Or tell you it's "pretty unlikely to be cancer, I don't think we need to worry about it" and then get sued for 20M when they are wrong about 1 in 100 cases (not to mention missing out on all the potential income from above).
At least in the US, the incentives here are grossly misaligned.
I switched away from tmux a year or so ago due to one crash I kept getting, but thinking of going back. Really miss the simplicity.
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