alt Hacker NewsI'd love to use something other than ROS2, if for no other reason than to get rid of the dependency hell and the convoluted build system.
But there are a lot of nodes and drivers out there for ROS already. It's a chicken and egg thing because people aren't going to write drivers unless there are enough users, and it's hard to get users without drivers.
It looks like their business model is to give away the OS and make money with FoxGlove-like tools. It's not a bad idea, but adoption will be an uphill battle. And since they aren't open source yet, I certainly wouldn't start using it on a project until it us.
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ROS is, in my opinion, dying on the industry front.
* It is a dependency hell
* It is resource-heavy on embedded systems
* It is too slow for real-time, high speed control loops
* Huge chunks of it are maintained by hobbyists and far behind the state of the art (e.g. the entire navigation stack)
* As robotics moves toward end-to-end AI systems, stuff needs to stay on GPU memory, not shuttled back and forth across processes through a networking stack.
* Decentralized messaging was the wrong call. A bunch of nodes running on a robot doesn't need a decentralized infrastructure. This isn't Bitcoin. Robots talking to each other, maybe, but not pieces of code on the same robot.
We're working hard to get ROS out of dependency hell - https://prefix.dev/blog/reproducible-package-management-for-...
Would love to hear your thoughts.