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Originally Posted by brianelite
What do you mean teams couldn't test the cRio/Driver station until kickoff?
The REAL issue here is that FIRST continues to put amateurs in charge of developing the programming environment. Total disaster this year with C++, our code was blowing up for WEEKS into build season before the WPI guys fixed their library... absolutely inexcusable that these guys who cannot even compile their own library are given the task of providing the programming tools for hundreds/thousands of teams using C++... It is simply outrageous that after 2 years deployment FIRST had to scramble to put out a working cRio image/ robotics library in the final week or so...
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This is completely un-called-for, completely ungracious, and completely unprofessional, and simply not true. Our team used the Beta on Beta system that WPI created for Java, never mind C++, and had ZERO problems, as did several winning robots at several of the regionals, using vision tracking with the Java.
I also saw winning teams using C++ at the BAE granite state regional and the St Louis regional. Blaming failure on libraries when other people are succeeding ... well, I'll leave it at that.