I perfectly understand your sentiment. When it comes to embedded systems nothing would beat C in near future especially those systems where safety matters. The

I perfectly understand your sentiment. When it comes to embedded systems nothing would beat C in near future especially those systems where safety matters. The lab I am working with explores different ways to code robotic and embedded systems. From MIT's SCRATCH to Erlang we have used them all. One of the area that we have been exploring is of using functional programming languages to program embedded systems. (For example we coded a robosoccer using Erlang). Being a Javascript enthusiast I always wanted to be able to write small JS programs that I could use to control hardware. Given that JS has good support for Functional programming languages as well, I wanted to try that as well. There is no doubt that people are expecting too much from Javascript but I do believe this is a very novel attempt that I see a point in supporting. I do not think JS is a language that will find application in say automotive systems but it can certainly be used to program robosoccer in my lab.