Frameworks taking advantage of python's capabilities as an interpreted language about robotpy-wpilib

[computer-whisperer]

I was going to continue development on my own with what I have for my team, and post it online when I am done. But I have come to realize that, without someone more knowledgeable than I reviewing the work, it will rapidly transform into a big bunch of trouble. I want to contribute something to this project, and to the FRC community in general, and I want to learn from my mistakes. I want to know what you would think about a framework like this, and what you would do with it, so that I can finish what I started.

[virtuald]

I agree that there's a lot of really cool things/potential with python, and I hope that more people will use it and do things like create cool frameworks.

My thought is that we shouldn't clutter the wpilib repository itself with things that aren't wpilib (eg, frameworks, utility libraries, and the like) -- but that shouldn't dissuade you from writing one. If you want feedback from people, I find posting stuff publicly is a good way to get interested people to make comments about it -- the trick is getting people interested in it.

There have been a lot of frameworks created for FRC over the years, and I've never really seen one that I particularly liked -- but perhaps I'm just too old school. However, I'm very interested in adding enhancements/extensions to WPILib to a common place that people can use them (see #6), but I think that stuff needs to end up in a separate repository somewhere -- and I'm not so sure I would want it to be a full-fledged framework. Just a collection of little things that make your coding easier.

[virtuald]

Also, I think @PeterJohnson mentioned he was interested in getting module reloading working on the RoboRIO.

[computer-whisperer]

@PeterJohnson Would you mind me taking a crack at implementing that? Or have you already started.