F Prime

It's cool to see how quickly the industry has been shifting to F Prime, cFS is great but it's run it's course. Unfortunately F Prime isn't quite as advanced as we may want (in terms of data throughput or modern features) but it is a great step forward in an industry that's often scared or unable to produce open source software.

I had a couple senior FPGA classes with a JPL engineer who had worked on F-Prime, it was awesome to see the project and learn embedded from it. I think he suffered layoffs shortly thereafter when JPL did a big RIF. I'm grateful they put such work into it and make it public, their support is a significant part of the curriculum at the upper division computer engineering where I went.

I'm just generally impressed by their community efforts vs cFS. They really do their development on GitHub - not just a place to push out source, but issues, PR's, discussions.

FPrime has some rough edges, and it takes a bit to get used to, but the team's interest in continually improving the core for a wide range of users is the differentiator.