Ask HN: Current state of programming embedded devices?
I&#x27;ve done a few safety-critical embedded devices for medical equipment and an air traffic control system.  We used Linux&#x2F;C so we didn&#x27;t kill people.<p>The combination of &quot;medical device&quot; and &quot;touch-based user interface&quot; started me twitching.  Some things to bear in mind are (1) will the interface work if the users are wearing rubber gloves? (2) there could be a problem with an infectious agent transferring from a patient to a doctor&#x27;s gloves to the screen then to another doctor and another patient.