Programming with the 2009 controller

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Originally Posted by neutrino15

I think it's great that FIRST has expanded our variety of IDEs.. I read on the 2009 PDF that Windriver is basically Eclipse.. Can somebody please explain? Is Windriver some comerical spinoff of a perfectly good Open Source project? Or is it just a set of plugins for the standard Eclipse IDE?

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Wind River is a company that develops toolchains such as compilers, linkers, and debuggers. My company uses them for cross compiling from a standard Wintel box to an embedded PowerPC platform. From experience I feel they are a good pick for this aspect of the new controller, and should hopefully bring fewer casting issues and more useful compile/link error messages.

For the poster who mentioned Visual C++, most of the gain of using Visual C++ is the tight integration with developing for MFC/.NET. Even if you could set it up to call the Wind River tools, the bulk of the nice features would go unused. That doesn't mean, however, that you couldn't use VC++ to write a Labview-esque frontend to send/receive data from your robot...