Thread: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
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Originally Posted by ideasrule View Post
I vote for C++ too. Not only is Java slow, the WPILibJ has no libraries for file access or for more than basic vision processing. Java also doesn't allow low-level access to memory.
You know that embedded Java programming is little more than accessing low level, native functions through a JNI?
Also, the fact that it doesn't allow low-level access to memory is a feature in most cases, making it harder to screw up.

More important than picking a language is figuring out the algorithms themselves, which may be as simple as "drive here, do action x, turn"... etc, with the smaller pieces left to teams to implement.
But then again, you don't know what the game will be, so its incredibly difficult to make meaningful decisions on strategies.

Best of luck anyhow. I feel like I've been a negative nancy for too long with this, I'll only post in this thread from now on if I can offer help
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