> Things went so bad that now some people suggest running whole web servers on MICROCONTROLLERS to just blink some LEDs! Why is that such a bad thing? Even mic

> Things went so bad that now some people suggest running whole web servers on MICROCONTROLLERS to just blink some LEDs! Why is that such a bad thing? Even microcontrollers are magnitudes more powerful than they were years ago, so why stick with other "simpler" methods when you can go with something more secure, easier to write and understand, and more "standard"? I'm one of those people running webservers on microcontrollers (you'll hate this, but I program my esp8266 controllers in JavaScript!), and it seems silly to lament that. They are cheap (about $3 a piece to my door), power efficient (battery life is measured in months for the battery powered devices), and all of my code is about a dozen lines of simple code that allows me to integrate with the rest of my system.