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Re: Java VS C++ || The Final Decision

Java is great for cell phones, not sure why we have it at all for the cRIO.
LabView is terrific for controlling bench instruments to take measurements, and for programmers that can't program or type.

Let's assume that C++ is the core language. Java is so similar to C++ that I guess it's fairly easy to offer it as an option, but then again, as it's so similar, there's no compelling reason for it. LabView is off in it's own world of pretty pictures and it's good to have a radically different viewpoint from text based C++ and the dreadful Eclipse IDE. Presumably WindRiver is to blame for that choice of IDE and FIRST are stuck with it. Did anyone make a jEdit based IDE for the cRIO C++ environment? Like I said, Java can be useful.