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Yes, the parking meter example is an exact case I ran into in real life. But Microvium didn't exist back then.

But in general, an IoT solution may have some business logic or rules that transcends the specific device, and some may prefer to represent that logic in a high level language like JS, and some situations may benefit from being able to access that logic from multiple places -- e.g. front-end, back-end, and device.