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Re: "Java, Sun SPOT and the FIRST Robotics Competition"

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Originally Posted by pogenwurst View Post
Remember that there will be a Java VM on the cRIO (the Squawk VM), so in theory any language that compiles down to JVM bytecode should run on the cRIO. Think JRuby (Ruby), Jython (Python), Scala, Clojure, Groovy, etc.
Remember that there is a C/C++ compiler in the development environment, so in theory any language that has a compiler/interpreter written in C/C++ should run on the cRio. Think... well, just about everything.

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That said, Squawk implements Java ME, not Java SE, which could cause some problems, as some of those language implementations may be geared towards Java SE.
That said, vxWorks only implements POSIX and the standard libraries in a semi-standard way, and Wind River doesn't come with autotools or binutils, which could cause some problems, as some of those implementations may be dependent on that.

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