[ea016]

Well, as Jeff Atwood famously said [0], "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript". I guess that applies to embedded systems too

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Atwood

[arendtio]

Well, wasn't Fabrice Bellard the guy who built a virtual machine with JS so that you could run Linux within the browser?

https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=riscv64&url=fedora33...

[tombert]

Fabrice is an absolute legend. Most people would be content with just making QEMU, but this guy makes TinyC and FFmpeg and QuickJS and MicroQuickJS and a bunch of other huge projects.

I am envious that I will never anywhere near his level of productivity.

[kzrdude]

And thanks to that we can run Linux in a PDF as well..

[anthk]

And FFMPEG, the standard codec suite for Unix today. And Qemu, the core of KVM. Plus TCC, a great small compiler compared to C/Clang altough cparser has better C99 coverage. Oh, and some DVB transmitter reusing the MHZ radiation from a computer screen by tweaking the Vidtune values from X. It's similar to what Tempest for Eliza does.

[underdeserver]

Indeed

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

[tacone]

Sounds a bit like rule 35 of the Internet.

[vitaminCPP]

Please don't use js in medical devices.

[achenet]

attempt at humor:Okay so, would you rather your beloved great aunt's pacemaker fail because the software in it was written in C, and there's a use-after-free memory error, or because the software in it was written in JavaScript, and because someone used `==` instead of `===` a boolean that should have been `false` is `true`?