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The reason why the Mirai botnet is still at large is: Android. From a business perspective nobody wants to pay the costly people that can do microcontroller pr
by thrwwycbr 3y ago
The reason why the Mirai botnet is still at large is: Android.
From a business perspective nobody wants to pay the costly people that can do microcontroller programming. Frontend devs are dirt cheap, especially for something as simple as that interface displaying the bar charts.
- justinclift 3y ago> nobody wants to pay the costly people that can do microcontroller programming The embedded world isn't known for paying well.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoActually competent microcontroller programmers definitely earn way more then bargain barrel front end devs.
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- patates 3y agoYou can easily say the same for the actually competent front-end devs.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoYes 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.
- throw310822 3y agoThere is also an enormous amount of flexibility gained when, instead if designing and building your own single-purpose device, you just use a cheap, mass produced, off the shelf, general purpose device.
- PeterisP 3y agoFrom employee perspective it was my impression that EE developers tend to get lower salaries than web developers. But it could be the case that building an android or web app for a simple UI would take less dev-months than an embedded app with similar functionality.
- marcosdumay 3y ago> building an android or web app for a simple UI would take less dev-months than an embedded app with similar functionality I'm quite sure that's correct.