Regulations are complex, but not every medical device or part of it is "life critical". There are plenty of regulated medical devices floating around running Linux, often based on Yocto. There is some debate in the industry about the particulars of this SOUP (software of unknown provenance) in general, but the mere idea of Linux in a medical device is old news and isn't crackpot or anything.
The goal for this guy seems to be a Linux distro primarily to serve as a reproducible dev environment that must include his own in-progress EDT editor clone, but can include others as long as they're not vim or use Qt.
Ironically Qt closed-source targets vxWorks and QNX. Dräger ventilators use it for their frontend.
Like the general idea of a medical device linux distros (for both dev host and targets) is not a bad one. But the thinking and execution in this case is totally derailed due to outsized and unfocused reactions to details that don't matter (ancient IRS tax computers), QtQuick having some growing pains over a decade ago, personal hatred of vim, conflating a hatred of Agile with CI/CD.
> You can't use non-typesafe junk when lives are on the line.
Their words, not mine. If lives are on the line you probably shouldn’t be using linux in your medical device. And I hope my life never depends on a medical device running linux.
