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Re: RobotBuilder

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Originally Posted by rdmarsh View Post
RobotBuilder is built to generate classes for the CommandBasedRobot template. If you're using that part of WPIlib anyway, RobotBuilder will be a nicer frontend for it than the standard netbeans plugin, and some of its features will be nice, but it's otherwise useless. Otherwise, I doubt it's worth switching just for RobotBuilder, especially given that it's two week from kickoff.

tl;dr use if it you're using Commands already, otherwise stay away
I wouldn't necessarily agree -- besides the fact that there's few reasons not to use command-based in the first place, RobotBuilder also outputs wiring diagrams for the mechanical/electrical teams to follow.
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