Preferred Programming Language

[Spoam]

IMO, Java is the language for FRC if what matters most to you is competitiveness. The main problem with C++ is that the freedom it affords you comes with many language specific nuances (e.g. undefined behavior) that you simply don't want to be debugging. Additionally, this added freedom isn't very useful in robot code (especially because the FRC libraries are identical between languages). From a simple cost/benefit analyses C++ introduces more potential for bugs and introduces little or no competitive advantage in FRC (the performance difference tends to be negligible). A relevant adage I once heard goes something like "bad Java code should refactored and fixed in a good IDE, bad C++ code should be burned".