[brennonbrimhall]

At FRC, you really only need to learn one language. Consider the pit area for a team. They have lots of tools to work with – but no two tools are designed for precisely the same purpose. A Philips screwdriver will not replace an allen key or some extruded aluminum (MacGyvering aside). Us programmers only have four tools/languages to work with (yes, Python is a perfectly viable option, don't dismiss it), but these tools are all intended to do the same thing. That's why FIRST remains primarily a mechanical competition, not really a programming one, and why teams will stick with a language.

In short, I think it makes sense to select a single language that suits your team for robot-related tasks, but also broaden your palate with non-robot languages – 254 just released an amazing Ruby-based CAD program, for example, that relied on some not-trivial SQL. Or 245, who released a scouting app written primarily in Javascript, designed to calculate OPR, CCWM, etc. There are two branches of FRC programming – the Robot, and some utilities for your team.