2009 Control System Possibility?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

Interesting... according to the cRIO description, you can use C/C++ code on the real-time processor, in addition to LabView. The more I read about this, the more sense it seems to make to me. I think this system could allow us to do a lot of interesting new things with I/O, as well as provide a really simple graphical programming interface for new programmers, while still allowing teams to continue learning and using C.

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Also I would be very surprised if you could program the robot in Python, Java, or Basic. If there was an OS with interpreters and a control API, then MAYBE this is a possibility, but I highly doubt it. That is very scary from a support/infrastructure point of view. I would expect to see some kind of visual programming language (something similar to easyC, Labview, Simulink, etc..) after the success of easyC in FRC and FTC.

I should have written in my first post that I would doubt seeing Python, Java, or Basic, but would 110% expect C/C++ capabilities. I assumed whatever platform we are moving to will have at least some capability to execute software written in C.