> In my head: > The idea of having HAL separate would be to promote/ease it's use in other > projects, > or ease the experimentation of underlying realtime control / cpu platforms. > > By letting our 'teenager' out of the house it has a better chance of learning > something > new which in turn may end up helping linuxcnc in the future. > > I bet that people see linuxcnc and not realize that HAL is not just for cnc > machine control. > > Chris M I think HAL main weakness is absence of RT scripting, so you need something ancient like classic ladder strapped on for any automation... As I understand, orocos is using Lua in RT, also they implemented finite state machine framework on top of it.
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