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Originally Posted by virtuald
Not true. Any language that can run on linux, could potentially be run on the RoboRIO. The "hard" part (really, it's typically just a lot of tedious work, as opposed to being truly hard) is creating appropriate bindings for WPILib/HAL.
Possibilities include (but are not limited to) Python ( done), Ruby, Perl, Go, Javascript, Haskell, Lisp, C#/Mono, D, Brainf*k, LOLCode... whatever someone is willing to put the work into, is possible.
I'd be interested in seeing someone create WPILib bindings for Go or Javascript. |
No idea what "Go" is but 1684 will be doing JavaScript next year (if I'm still on the team) (or a custom language still being developed if time allows). The only reason that we didn't do it this year was that plans for a backup roboRIO fell through.
// just looked up "Go"
Code:
no type inheritance
no method or operator overloading
no circular dependencies among packages
no pointer arithmetic
no assertions
no generic programming
eh.