[Greg McKaskle]

More details about Athena will be made available in about seven weeks. I'll respond to just a few of the recent rants here, but this isn't the place for the details.

CPU usage:
I'm out of town attending a wedding, so I don't have a cRIO with me, but I do not believe that your measurements of the default system are accurate. On my computer, I have 50,000 log files from numerous teams acquired during the 2013 season. I do not see a rampant CPU usage problem in that data. Most teams are below 50% on their finished robot.

Default Code:
This was an intentional shift. Default code was replaced by default source code for the same reasons that the frame elements aren't preassembled, the electrical prewired, etc. Preassembled components to avoid a challenge will likely speed up one task, but may deny others from contributing.

WPILib:
I'm well aware that you do not like and do not use the higher level components of WPILib. As you found by digging deeper into WPILib, you are not forced to use floating point numbers, math, and fancy stuff. Features like NetworkTables do not take away your ability to do low-level UDP protocols and the majority of teams use them.

Getting it:
Lucky for you, CTRE and NI and WPI and AM are all contributing to Athena.

Greg McKaskle