This looks great :)
On Friday, 12 December 2014 20:06:37 UTC+1, Josh Langsfeld 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 <http://wiki.ros.org> (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 >
