If the elevator company can put in a display, run Linux, cage and electron / webbrowser I think that's a good idea. What I don't think is great is frontend people I work with having "map" explained to them because they don't know. vscode proves "js bad" wrong over and over, crap software can be written in any language.

All of those things are so complex that faults are repaired by rebooting it. That is not a solution

I disagree, if they can get a product with great UX through the door but has to reboot the system on a timer (maybe once it knows its empty from a PLC input) every so often I'd call it a solution. In fact, Boeing thinks rebooting an airplane is a solution to integer overflow[0].

While I do not appreciate everything being a Web app it's also a very robust platform to build upon, there aren't many projects that gets as many eyes as browsers and their components.

[0]: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/8548-reboot-...

> oeing thinks rebooting an airplane is a solution to integer overflow

exactly, that's horrifying. Only seppuku would be enough of a punishment.

Mechanical things need mechanical software that never fails.

Now, the embedded industry has largely failed at software development and they are using softeare that was not meant for them.