Announcing FIRSTLua

[zombiezen]

Hello, teams!

I would like to announce a project that we (Team 973) have been working on during the off-season: FIRSTLua. FIRSTLua is a fully functioning Lua interpreter that can be used for developing robot control code.

Some advantages of using Lua:

• Lua is (arguably) easier to learn than C
• Live code reloads
• Errors won't crash the robot
• Lua provides automatic garbage collection
• WindRiver isn't needed after the base code is installed. Just a text editor and an FTP client.

This is beta-quality software: we have had success using Lua on our robot, but your mileage may vary. Examples and documentation are included. We are announcing this project now in the hopes that other teams will find it useful and will want to test it and contribute to it. By the time build season comes around, we'd like this to be a viable option for writing FIRST control code. Please help us out by reporting any bugs you find, and happy coding!

Project Page:
http://redmine.zombiezen.com/projects/firstlua

README:
http://redmine.zombiezen.com/project...try/README.txt

Download:
http://redmine.zombiezen.com/projects/firstlua/files

FIRSTLua is released under an MIT Open Source License, as detailed in the README.