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by stevendhansen 3492 days ago
The big problem in my mind is that Python is the wrong tool for the job. It is 2016, there are more hard-RTOS prototyping platforms than ever before. My favorite is National Instrument's RIO platform, which lets you use C or LabVIEW (imho the best language for prototyping control algorithms by far). Mathworks also has a platform based on Matlab/Simulink, and the list goes on.

Why use Python when there are existing tools that are made for this type of application?
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snovv_crash 3492 days ago
LabVIEW is great until you need a complicated data structure. I tried writing a tree to do kNN, and it turned out that doing a brute force search was faster even with 100k elements.
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veli_joza 3491 days ago
This is (now) open source project expecting community pull requests. How many would they get if they went with LabView? The big emphasis that I like seeing in modern scientists is reproducibility of results. Jupyter Notebook is a huge step in that direction (not really applicable here), but just using open source platform is still great.

I agree though that once algorithms are developed sufficiently they should be ported to RTOS platform and this box shouldn't be permitted on open roads.

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