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
>

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