Roborio and Swift?

[Arhowk]

Originally Posted by virtuald

Not true. Any language that can run on linux, could potentially be run on the RoboRIO. The "hard" part (really, it's typically just a lot of tedious work, as opposed to being truly hard) is creating appropriate bindings for WPILib/HAL.

Possibilities include (but are not limited to) Python (done), Ruby, Perl, Go, Javascript, Haskell, Lisp, C#/Mono, D, Brainf*k, LOLCode... whatever someone is willing to put the work into, is possible.

I'd be interested in seeing someone create WPILib bindings for Go or Javascript.

No idea what "Go" is but 1684 will be doing JavaScript next year (if I'm still on the team) (or a custom language still being developed if time allows). The only reason that we didn't do it this year was that plans for a backup roboRIO fell through.

// just looked up "Go"

no type inheritance
no method or operator overloading
no circular dependencies among packages
no pointer arithmetic
no assertions
no generic programming

eh.