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Same here. They went backwards on the debugger this year. I just tried the bridge tool, and it crashed on 8.1 with an HP laptop.

As for SFX, it just doesn't work for me.

It's really frustrating to have this happen EVERY SINGLE YEAR. These little glitches are a pain, and a lot of teams don't realize that their problems may be caused by the libraries. Every year, Joe Ross does a great job reporting bugs (and workarounds), but it gets old to see problems that worked in the past work now.

Having a working debugger is a pretty big thing. It hasn't really worked ever, and we've used java from the beginning.

Every year, we move backward and away from a simple, reliable, well-working robot system to one with more problems and more unnecessary features. Sure, having a 400 MHz CPU is great for vision, but for $100 I can get something that's way faster, and way less restrictive to program on.

I still have yet to see a single robot that needs the extra processing power and complexity from having a cRIO and the other huge and heavy components that go with it.