[chubot]

It appears that the current gen of "IoT" is built on cheap SoCs which run Linux.

Linux is millions of lines of C code already, so using Forth in that context feels a bit ridiculous.

[pjmlp]

Cheaper SoCs like Arduino and Cortex-M3 run bare metal runtimes, just like on the old days.

But yeah, I guess for single units people will just shell out 10 euro more and use a Linux capable unit.

However there are options to use better languages than C or C++ for bare metal embedded development, but none of them tends to be Forth, rather Basic, Pascal, Ada, Java, .NET, Oberon variants.