Feedback Thread: WPILib

[spartango]

If there was one part of the WPILib that bothered me, it was that when it got ported to the java platform, it didn't get redesigned to match java paradigms and features. As an example, it doesnt use OOP or exceptions as effectively as it might.

The bigger, and more interesting, feature that seems to be wholly missing from the WPILib is events & asynchronous action. In my experience, these are particularly useful, if not essential, in robotics & other realtime applications...

Case in point, see TinyOS, the embedded development platform where EVERYTHING is event based and asynchronous. The iOS platform also actively demonstrates this system effectiveness.
Developers from my team implemented and successfully used our own event models in java, and I would encourage you to look at their work in improving the WPILib.
http://code.google.com/p/grtframework