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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: farsi on September 23, 2015, 07:08:54 am

Title: Building robots with JavaScript
Post by: farsi on September 23, 2015, 07:08:54 am

Maybe interesting for some: http://munich-arduino.de/2015/08/28/nodebotsday/ (http://munich-arduino.de/2015/08/28/nodebotsday/)

There was a workshop about building robots with JavaScript, so-called "nodebots". Might be interesting to hear if there are more people working on this?

Title: Re: Building robots with JavaScript
Post by: apis on September 24, 2015, 12:57:05 am

I don't really see why javascript would make things any simpler than say, java, python or even c++? There are obvious benefits from using a mature language like c++.  :-//

Title: Re: Building robots with JavaScript
Post by: lgbeno on September 24, 2015, 04:16:27 am

The asynchronous nature of javascript is interesting for robots.

Could shoot you in the foot too.


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Title: Re: Building robots with JavaScript
Post by: ivaylo on September 24, 2015, 06:16:34 am

What is the asynchronous nature of JavaScript?

Title: Re: Building robots with JavaScript
Post by: Howardlong on September 24, 2015, 06:44:06 am

Possibly referring to Ajax? But that's not really JavaScript itself.

I haven't done Web programming for some years, I found that you need a particular mindset for it that I don't have. You need plenty of patience to want to code around different browser incompatibilities and standards interpretations. Not to mention CSS, which is surely the work of the devil!

I am not sure what value using JavaScript has over any other option as others have said, other than "because you can".