Very cool. Glad you've been enjoying Julia so much, Josh. -- John
On Dec 12, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Josh Langsfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > After about 6 weeks of initial part-time development, I'm announcing the > first release of the RobotOS.jl package, which enables essentially seamless > integration of Julia code with ROS (Robot Operating System). At the core, it > is mostly a wrapper for the rospy python library (many thanks to Steve > Johnson for PyCall), but on top of that I added an automatic Julia type > generation system so the back-end python details are completely hidden from > the end-user. > > https://github.com/phobon/RobotOS.jl > > I believe the robotics community is especially well suited to adopt Julia, as > speed and natural mathematical expressiveness are both highly desirable > features in whichever programming language is used. For about six months now, > I've been doing all my research in Julia and it has been vastly more > pleasurable than using either Matlab or Python. > > I am quite eager to continue development on the package with whatever > community feedback I can get but hopefully it can already prove useful to > anyone out there who has already thought of using the two systems together. > > Thanks, > > Josh Langsfeld > Graduate Research Assistant > Maryland Robotics Center - UMD
