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castratikron on Oct 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: VxWorks now with C++17 and Rust support, alongside...

Yes, embedded is harder than web. But embedded can only scale to as many hardware units the company can sell, while web can in theory scale to everyone on the planet. Web pays more because of this.

goatinaboat on Oct 10, 2019 [–]

On the other hand people are comfortable paying actual money for hardware but expect websites to be free.

ChuckNorris89 on Oct 10, 2019 | [–]

Websites aren't free, they're mining your data just that average Joe doesn't know or doesn't care as long as it's free.

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