7 engineers on Hacker News describe using ROS first-hand: 2 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We replaced ROS with GRPC, foxglove and our own code. Works reliably, much better to handle.”
regret · production · sashank_1509 · 2025-01-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“90% of the work is getting all the different ROS components to play nicely with each other at the same time. Never again.”
regret · production · snovv_crash · 2023-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using ROS for some 8+ years now, for university projects, competitions like RoboCup@Home and for work on robots”
endorse · production · 8 yr · ragebol · 2019-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use ROS. ROS is not reliable for a timing-critical automotive system. That's why our cars drive so slowly/cautiously”
regret · production · tmpnam1234567 · 2017-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ROS.org is an excellent framework for message passing between C++, Python, Java and lisp (and in my current project we also have custom bindings”
endorse · production · tlarkworthy · 2012-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The underlying OS like ROS (that we use)?”
neutral · production · apeytavin · 2024-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've examined this a number of times over the years for deploying a ROS (Robot Operating System) workspace to robots and laptops.”
neutral · production · mikepurvis · 2020-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?