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No kudos for picking the worst language around to run on hardware which may have mission critical requirements. When a device sensor heart rate stops reporting data, will your JS code return undefined, null, NaN, 0 or something else? Who needs mature error handling? Low memory requirements? No problem, v8 will have a reasonable memory footprint by 2024.

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Because as we all know, code written in C can't ever crash or suffer from memory leaks.

I don't think anyone's advocating JS for life-and-death use cases. It's all about the right tool for the job, there's no reason to write off any particular language or environment a priori.

Where does it say its for mission critical applications on constrained hardware? Who has ever advocated JS for such an application?

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