What programming language do you prefer?

[mattallen37]

I am just curious, what programming language is the most popular (as a preferred language) for the people that use MiBo.

[dudmaster]

NXC 4 me, as you will very soon see!

[muntoo]

Well, if you look around, most of the posts are about NBC/NXC...
I bet most of the RobotC guys are at the RobotC Forums, though. Or maybe I'm wrong?

[mattallen37]

Right, but there are still some here (Xander for sure) that use RobotC, and I know there are some here that use NXT-G primarily. This is just to see how many there are here that use the different languages.

[mightor]

A lot of the Lejos people hang out in their own forum, with the exception of a few The same applies to the ROBOTC people, so I am not sure how valid your results are going to be. It's like asking only lactose intolerant people in a poll about cheese.

- Xander "slightly lactose intolerant" Soldaat

[aswin0]

Hi,

I am a robotC man. I started out using NXT-G but I hated the slow and buggy IDE. The day I needed floating points I didn't hesitate to throw it aside. The reasons for choosing robotC were:

• floating point support
• Speed of execution in general
• High speed bluetooth implementation
• Previous experience with the C-language

I might try Lejos one day because I feel comfortable with OO-programming although I have no Java experience.

[mattallen37]

A lot of the Lejos people hang out in their own forum, with the exception of a few The same applies to the ROBOTC people, so I am not sure how valid your results are going to be. It's like asking only lactose intolerant people in a poll about cheese.

- Xander "slightly lactose intolerant" Soldaat

I know, I am not trying to see the overall percentages, just a relative percent on these forums specifically.

[muntoo]

I might try Lejos one day because I feel comfortable with OO-programming although I have no Java experience.

Yeah, me too, even though Java is my mortal enemy. (Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. - Mis-attributed to Sun-Tzu, Nicollo Machiavelli ( ), and Petrarch)

A lot of the Lejos people hang out in their own forum, with the exception of a few The same applies to the ROBOTC people, so I am not sure how valid your results are going to be. It's like asking only lactose intolerant people in a poll about cheese.

- Xander "slightly lactose intolerant" Soldaat

[tcwan]

I'm a Bare-metal C & Assembly guy, so I had to choose "Other" . I'm basing my stuff on NxOS primarily, if I have to choose another platform on the list, it'll probably be nxtOSEK.

[kvols]

Sorry - I didn't see the poll..

LeJOS for me, thanks!

In very short:

• Full support for classes with local method names, inheritance, overloading.
• World class development environment using eg. Eclipse or Netbeans
• Full support for recursion, threads, dynamic allocation, automatic garbage collection.
• Good performance, yet safe programming without worrying about pointers or indexes.
• Plenty of built-in data types (int, float, double, long, ..)
• All free, completely open source, and works great on my favorite platform: Ubuntu

My ¢5...