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Originally Posted by rodgadashruba
hey quick question,
My team's programming side is made up of medium level programmers, and some of the great code by Kevin Watson is overwelming. We would be using MpLab regardless. but what are the cons of using WPIlib? it seems like there is none but i may have over looked somthing
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I see two possible reasons that someone might not want to use it.
It is currently a "proprietary" solution. What I mean is that you are free to use it in any way you like, but the source code is not available. This is due to its inclusion in EasyC. This might change in the future.
With that said, I can tell you that we are using the code ourselves and posting new versions whenever it changes. I would consider it pretty unprofessional to be having a version of the library that we were using on Team 190 that wasn't available to everyone.
The other is that it is simply a different style of programming then the default code supplied by IFI. If you are more comfortable with the current code, then by all means, keep using it. We found it much easier to teach students programming using WPILib for 2 week intro to robotics courses.