FR-C# -- Microsoft C# for the roboRio... ANY interest?

[connor.worley]

Originally Posted by Michael Blake

One of our students, Ryan Cooper - a Microsoft Imagine Cup Finalist, has successfully ported his own code base of C#, incorporating a forkful of RobotDotNet, to run compiled on the roboRIO.

Since our founding we've had the benefit of a C++ professional programmer as a mentor and we've been C++ Beta Test team for the last 4 seasons.

Our internal debate is whether moving to C# and away from C++ may be useful for student programmers in the long-run and MAY BE something we could contribute and maintain for the FRC community to use in addition to C++, Java, Python, and LabView?

We're calling Ryan's version FR-C# (my _only_ contribution - lol).

We would love some feedback and opinions on moving to C#... and whether there would be a significant enough interest among FRC teams for 3481 Bronc Botz moving to formal publishing/maintaining of FR-C# for competition use by FRC teams...

--Michael Blake

So... what are the pros of going to C#? It sounds like a pretty one sided debate right now.