RTOS vs Bare Metal
Bare metal: one super-loop plus interrupts — simple and predictable. RTOS: tasks with priorities, timing services and inter-task communication.
Easy
Move to an RTOS when several activities with different timing needs (comms, control, UI) make the super-loop hard to reason about.
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