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Originally Posted by virtuald
BS. A skilled practitioner can be competitive with ANY language in FRC, without regards to the mechanics of the robot. Whether it's easy to do or not, is a separate question.
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I agree. I actually vastly prefer C++ over Java in most circumstances. The tidbit with FRC is that you're rarely dealing with just skilled practitioners. The flexibility to use robot code written by a novice without worrying that a syntax error will cause a heap corruption that you'll spend 2 hours debugging is pretty significant in my experience.
I bet a lot of us (mentors and students) got into this line of work first because we wondered how things work, and stayed in it because we thought "I can make that work better". Thus starts a life-long battle between perfection and time. So far, time is ahead. - petek [more] 
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