[justinclift]

> nobody wants to pay the costly people that can do microcontroller programming

The embedded world isn't known for paying well.

[MichaelZuo]

Actually competent microcontroller programmers definitely earn way more then bargain barrel front end devs.

[patates]

You can easily say the same for the actually competent front-end devs.

[MichaelZuo]

Yes but the original point is that 'competent front-end devs' aren't needed in this case, so they can get away with the bottom of the barrel.