[Greg McKaskle]

My input would be to focus on the core libs. You can start with simple C/C++ code to sequence through core routines and test the initial autonomous.

Once you have that under your belt, you want a way to safely and quickly write alternative auto routines. If you don't want much flexibility, you simply make it data driven using XML or another text format, or even Excel or other spreadsheet. If you want to be able to loop and make decisions, these lack enough flexibility, so you pull in a safe high-level language.

If you don't get the core stuff done, you'll find yourself writing too much code in the scripting language, which will hurt the performance and will turn difficult since scripting languages typically run into issues doing low level stuff.

Greg McKaskle