Comment by zoran3431 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by zoran3431 | Hacker News Reader

Ok I will just say it. ROS sucks and is a nightmare to use. When it does work it doesn't work well. I am not sure why we continue to use this outdated programming method. I have several robot. All of them could use ROS but I choose not to torture myself with what a mess that would be. Now a days coding or programming does not have to be unenjoyable. If you want to not use the dreaded ROS method to kill your brain then use ChatGPT 1.o this will change the way you code forever and you will actually enjoy it and look forward to coding with it. It takes the nightmare away that ROS created. No one wants to use ROS let's be honest. So finally there is a better way. ChatGPT 1.o makes ROS to look like an outdated mess.

ROS is like the One Ring. Binds everything in the darkness but corrupts you into his dark slave slowly. It must be thrown away into the hot lava.

what?

I love ROS. There are setup files for stuff inside ROS (pathfinding etc) that I haven't enjoyed, and I've definitely struggled with things like keeping it all standardised with like dockerfiles, but the ROS itself? the concurrency is amazing. I constantly wish I had it on non-robotics projects...

as others have mentioned, it has scaling issues. But for getting things done on a base level, its super powerful. The fault-tolerance it allows has benefited our robots a lot - it's often possible even with severely degraded systems to manually guide one around.

I do agree with what others have said about how the best usages are often to not go too deep into the ecosystem and instead use its messaging and concurrency protocol in limited ways, and have a lot of your internal logic siloed, to avoid hardcore dependency. After all, the idea of this kind of system is to allow new nodes to listen to sensor data (coming in) and/or planning goals (going out) to be able to make their decisions. Not passing some kind of intermediate calculation to some other subsystem

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