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Re: RoboRio

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Originally Posted by jagen31 View Post
The roboRIO, certainly, as it runs linux... But I think that the cRIO running VxWorks might be more troublesome... I haven't seen a port of ruby to run on VxWorks.
And nobody had built a python port for vxWorks until we did it either. It's vaguely POSIX ish, so it would be troublesome, but doable. Probably not worth the effort at this point since it won't be used anymore -- but totally doable. And the SWIG wrappers used by the Lua version of WPILib could be a good starting point too.

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