imo the issue is that doing academic training in robotics means doing whatever your advisor tells you to do and playing the academic rat-race game OR working in

imo the issue is that doing academic training in robotics means doing whatever your advisor tells you to do and playing the academic rat-race game OR working in industry churning out features as fast as possible to keep your company alive, which essentially means that you are not going to be able to spend any meaningful time learning how to do FFI in Rust or Python or whatever. I think that's the real reason robotics software is in the dark ages. But then again, I'm not in the field and this is an armchair take. So yeah.