A related thread from 2018: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17916456" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17916456</a><p>Three smaller threads from 2017: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890213" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890213</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15749546" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15749546</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15530813" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15530813</a><p>Quite small from 2016, but nicely counters the OP's baity title: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12080752" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12080752</a><p>2013: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867480" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867480</a><p>A similar article from last year: <a href="https://svrobo.org/a-history-of-ros-robot-operating-system/" rel="nofollow">https://svrobo.org/a-history-of-ros-robot-operating-system/</a><p>(via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490740" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20490740</a>, but no comments there)
There is some really good discussion on this in the 2018 thread, but I'd really like to see a ROS 3 that conforms a little more to the more widely-used alternatives to the stuff they had to roll for themselves back in the day.
Kind of a weird choice for the name, the title of the piece is "The hottest thing in robotics is an open source project you've never heard of" and "The Robot Operating System (ROS) has moved out of academics" is a sub-section (and makes more sense as such, since it's in contrast to ROS's origins, not any recent event). Aside from letting you know ROS exists this piece is fairly free of content, but I guess it's a neat thing to be aware of.
I didn't know it was considered as more academic, seeing as I saw it in production on some next level stuff. At least it was dockerized and I didn't have to wrangle it.
Is ROS any easier and more reliable than it used to be? I've tried a few times, out of curiosity, to tinker with it, but have never been able to get the thing to work well enough to go through tutorials.