> It is a message from people who program robots to those who design robots. I thought it was a message from someone who designs robots to someone who programs

> It is a message from people who program robots to those who design robots. I thought it was a message from someone who designs robots to someone who programs robots. The author says they are an ME and mostly self taught. In my experience, self taught MEs are not adept robot programmers or programmers in general. If I may try to parse the subtext here, this is a post by a ME who is helping manage/direct a startup of recent college grads, and they are frustrated with ROS because you basically have to be a Linux network admin and skilled C/C++ programmer to get anywhere with ROS. MEs especially find it frustrating because they just want to do robots, but to use ROS they have to be expert linux console hackers and it's just not a skillset they have. Same is true for the fresh out of college CS majors -- my students who are seniors, Master's, and even some PhD students have trouble with it. So what I see here is someone expressing that frustration of how tooling is in the robotics ecosystem is not accessible. The reason this is a "discovery channel" treatment of the topic is because we're not talking about it at that level. We're talking about it at this distilled, filtered, high-minded perspective that is above the weeds, when really we should be digging in the dirt talking about exactly the problem here.