> are people still programming robots in Forth nowadays? Frankly, I haven't kept up with the Forth community. Back in the day it was really popular in astrono

> are people still programming robots in Forth nowadays? Frankly, I haven't kept up with the Forth community. Back in the day it was really popular in astronomy as well. Lots of observatories used Forth to control their telescopes, etc. The transition to C/C++ was inevitable for a range of reasons. Finding qualified Forth programmers became really hard at some point. For me the transition happened when a friend of mine asked me to help port a Forth codebase to C. The system was used for DNA sequencing by researchers in the Human Genome project. It had become very difficult to maintain and evolve the product precisely due to not being able to find good (or enough) Forth coders. I think that was the last large Forth project I completed, which, oddly enough, involved abandoning Forth in favor or C.