It's nothing groundbreaking, although my idea alone wouldn't really help in the safety critical space.

If web development were like embedded development every single company would be building their own web server, browser, and protocol the two communicate over. It would take a phenomenal amount of time and the actual end product, the website, would be rushed out the door at the very tail end of this massive development effort. As the complexity of the website grows, the worse it gets. All of the features being sold to customers take a backseat to the foundational work that costs the company money either through initial development or ongoing maintenance. Plus there's very little in the way of transferable skills since everything tends to be bespoke from the ground up which poses a problem when hiring.

In this analogy that base layer is really just hardware support. This is starting to change with projects like mbed, zephyr, etc. There's still a lot to be desired here and these realistically only work in a subset of the embedded space.

My idea comes in after this. Keeping with the analogy, consider it Ruby on Rails or NodeJS for the embedded world. Certainly not appropriate for all things, but a lot of what I have worked on professionally would benefit from this.