Neat stuff. What's all the hate is about. Not every embedded system is running real-time sensitive industrial machinery or medical equipment.<p>Many things like general consumer electronics can run fine with Node. The runtime is incredibly well-tested at this point, JS is easily learned and scriptable for extensibility, the single-threaded nature is easy to work with and fast enough, and managed memory makes it easy to crash and recover from failures.
"Saying that JavaScript is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders."<p>It's great for use on the web, just please keep it there!
I hear they use embedded systems on airplanes, rockets and space vehicles. Javascript on embedded systems makes it so that your average front end developer can now make the software that controls auto pilot or Nuclear Power Plants!<p>Javascript is taking over!