[JDNovak]

An update on the post I made above:

A new Beta version of Robotbuilder, WPILib for C++, and Smartdashboard were released a few days ago and we were able to test it for a couple of hours.

Many of the bugs I alluded to above were fixed. The things we had trouble with may be related to misunderstanding and ignorance rather than real problems.

Our perspective is that Robotbuilder is useful with or without Command based structure. We tried Command structure last year but defaulted back to our old methods because we didn't have time to learn it properly.

Robotbuilder creates code based on the Iterative structure that I prefer because of my Programmable Logic Controller background. managing multiple subsystems with minimal overhead is much easier once you are used to it. We are still unsure whether we will use the Command structure this year but we will use Robotbuilder.

The Livewindow feature works now with a new Test Mode and I'm looking forward to this enabling new teams as well as our newer members to get more involved with debugging. We didn't have time to test a PID loop but we will before kickoff.

I'm much more hopeful that this will be a great addition to the FIRST programming world.