That is impressive, and not unexpected given the (likely) billions of dollars of investment in things like nodejs. I did not mean to disparage it in itself just because it was developed for a particular domain.
However, if "An embedded system uses the internet to communicate" has become synonymous with "It runs linux and uses web services and nodejs" then that would be a perfect example of contorting the application to match the technology that more programmers are most productive with.
However, if "An embedded system uses the internet to communicate" has become synonymous with "It runs linux and uses web services and nodejs" then that would be a perfect example of contorting the application to match the technology that more programmers are most productive with.