Serious bug identified in SmartDashboard/NetworkTables -- robot hangs

[JamesTerm]

Originally Posted by JamesTerm

Yes, that would be an ideal long-term goal if anyone is willing to do it...

I want to expand a bit on this... one thing I have realized later in life is that time gets shorter and it seems like code is never done. There are so many things I'd have liked to have done in code, but can't find the time to do them. So as we sharpen our skills in coding we have less time to do it (especially if you have kids). So with this kind of perspective I've learned that we try to bring the most functionality forward even though it may not be perfect. When I was younger... I'd love to re-invent the wheel as I could learn from it, but then at some point I learned how to read other people's code and figure out what they intended to do. This is perhaps the most important skill for a software engineer as there is so much existing code out there... it is important as this is needed to be able to work with a team of engineers, and deal with any imperfections, or coding style differences... when all is said and done... it will be just a few lines of code here and there... corrected, and this Network Tables will become a reliable solution. Grant it, there is some code out there that cannot be salvaged, but this code doesn't fall into that category as I think it was well thought out... in spite of the nit-picky things I mentioned previously. I am a pragmatic person who works with imperfect code all the time... we get it done enough to get the job done... if it works... and works reliably then we win... without re-inventing and losing time and going through another cycle of bugs to fix.