Some basic questions from a newbie Robotics team

[Unionjackjz]

@feng

so PROS might be a good choice for them?

PROS and VEXcode Pro are both C++

But I have to add, today I’ve seen VEXcode crash four times, one of the times making it so we couldn’t open the project. Recently when I was working on a project main.c was cleared once, and froze while modifying code 5 or 6 times.

And to be fair to PROS, with it currently using Atom, there’s a bug where files will sometimes go blank. I’ve never had this happen, but I’ve seen students experience this and there’s threads here of students explaining their issues.

With PROS you don’t need to use Atom, as explained by Barin from the thread linked above:

@Barin

If you believe this issue was caused by the PROS Editor, then simply do not use the PROS Editor. That is part of the beauty of PROS — you can use anything from the most sophisticated IDEs to the most basic text editors without being forced to give up integration. I personally greatly dislike and never use Atom (the PROS Editor is nothing more than re-skinned Atom with a few extensions preinstalled), and I have never experienced or heard of an issue like this with any other text editor/IDE I have used.

Moral of the story is to use Git.