Announcing FIRSTLua

[Peter Johnson]

Originally Posted by zombiezen

I would love to see Python working on the cRIO! I am a hard-core Python user and advocate, and that's what we first tried, but we ran into some troubles with that.

I was inspired by your work and... ported Python to the cRIO. It's working well enough to initialize and print sys.modules.keys() using PyRun_SimpleString(). Next steps: load and run a .py file rather than using PyRun_SimpleString(), and port your SWIG WPILib wrappers to Python.

Not yet ready for prime time like your Lua port is, but I wanted to let folks know I've got it at least minimally running. I'll make another announcement when I've got WPILib-using code running and it's ready for other people to really experiment with.

Git repo at: http://git.tortall.net/cgit.cgi/RobotPy.git/
I recommend TortoiseGit for getting a copy on Windows.

On another note: you may want to rename your project to not use the FIRST name. FIRST recently became more sensitive about such things as they've trademarked the "FIRST" name and thus have to protect it from dilution. I named my Python port "RobotPy" for this reason; you might want to rename yours to "RobotLua" or something similar.