ROS News for the Week of April 14th, 2025

What’s so offensive about David’s post it has to be flagged?

While Noetic is going to EOL in about a month, I also don’t get the ROS-1-shaming that some seem to be engaging in. It’s almost as-if there isn’t almost 15 years of robotics applications & projects that successfully made use of it.

Quite a few products still depend on ROS 1 – looking at you Clearpath fi – and that’s just a fact of live.

For numerous applications, ROS 1 is still plenty capable. For plenty applications, ROS 2 is still not usable.

All of that is OK. ROS 2 is not >= ROS 1 – even though the bump to the major version nr seems to suggest it and has people confused about that.

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