[cardiffspaceman]

I am an embedded developer using primarily C++, but I've done a ton with Javascript. I don't know why an embedded developer would refuse to touch frontend, other than a suspicion it would fit the stereotypes of database applications (CRUD, tables). The embedded UI's I've worked with the most were not in HTML but we have done demos using WebKit and Angular or GWT. Given the asynchronous constructs it takes to keep our product running properly, the asynch in Angular was not an issue. We also had an in-house test tool that we ran for over a decade that used Javascript for the tests themselves. This was not asynchronous but we ended up with several engineers who knew Javascript's scope peculiarities and unit test requirements because of it.