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Originally Posted by Cyberguy34000
Bahh... I think you programmers are overlooking something. While it might be easier for the initiated, C++ is a nightmare to learn in a matter of weeks for people with no prior experience. For small teams who barely get away with programming enough code to make their robot move in a few directions, this thing could be a godsend. For people who don't understand C, this could help them to actually have some autonomous code among other cool features that wouldn't have been possible before. True, it would be a bad thing to require the use of it for all FIRST teams, as many teams have programmers that are fully capable of coding in C, but I think it's shortsighted to blast something that you aren't familiar with.
Ultimately, used as another tool to help teams get off the ground faster, this thing could be great.
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Perhaps then people should get familiar with C before the season? I can understand why this might be good, but at the same time, it kind of punishes the people who really know what they are doing, IMHO. Besides, part of the FIRST experience is exposing people to things they'd find in the real world, and in the case of programming, that's C and not some drag and drop thing.