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"G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid> writes:
>> Realtime and embedded stuff being a niche
> A rather large and well funded niche, I understand.

Is it?  Maybe I'm in an insular world but I only know one or two people
who work on stuff like that, vs. any number of web or application
programmers (generally server-side).

> Witness also the number of people who say "IoT".

Hmm ok, but most of that stuff (report your refrigerator temperature to
a server once an hour or whatever) is non-realtime and is or should be
written in scripting languages.  Admittedly there's some low level
realtime stuff in the devices too (RF protocols etc), but that part is
usually done by the hardware manufacturer or some other specialized
niche programmers.