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  {
    "id": "ros2-comm-10",
    "tier": "community",
    "url": "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/47296255",
    "excerpt": "I usually feel the same when starting something new... Installing/building ROS, the package boilerplate, etc... But then again I often end up wanting a lot of the extra stuff you get with ROS like the bags, the viewers, the cli tools, etc.",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-09-04T22:02:55.852Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "ros2-comm-11",
    "tier": "community",
    "url": "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/36045938",
    "excerpt": "pub/sub is NOT a natural fit for robotics - you want bounded timing... ROS introduced 'commands' and 'actions' to attempt to work around this, but its all just shit piled on shit.",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-09-04T22:02:55.852Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "ros2-comm-12",
    "tier": "community",
    "url": "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/36045938",
    "excerpt": "Actually deploying a ROS based system is about as difficult as rewriting the whole thing from scratch as a monolith. Every time something goes over a pubsub it's like using a GOTO, except your debugger can't actually follow it.",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-09-04T22:02:55.852Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "ros2-comm-13",
    "tier": "community",
    "url": "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/36045938",
    "excerpt": "I still remember the time before ROS, 20 years ago, when each robotics team had to designate a sub-team just for building and maintaining the middleware. That was a waste of time and effort... ROS might not be perfect but it's so much better than anything else that exists.",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-09-04T22:02:55.852Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "ros2-comm-14",
    "tier": "community",
    "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123894",
    "excerpt": "my employer/team supported a good chunk of the work for making ROS 2 actually work on arm64... The best of these SBCs is still vastly shittier in terms of software support and stability than any random Chinese Intel ADL-N box.",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-09-04T22:02:55.852Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "ros2-comm-15",
    "tier": "community",
    "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389266",
    "excerpt": "I'm really struggling in learning ROS in a systematic way. The tutorials are all over the place and somehow unorganized IMO. When trying to replicate stuff on my machine, all kinds of weird errors pop up.",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-09-04T22:02:55.852Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "ros2-comm-16",
    "tier": "community",
    "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389266",
    "excerpt": "ROS is popular because it's like a big collection of .proto or .thrift files for complex robotics datatypes that everyone agrees to use in their libraries... this makes it easier to put together complex systems that pass around highly structured data.",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-09-04T22:02:55.852Z"
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