Comment by heisenzombie

There are MANY packages in this space: Labs love to invent their own versions powered by the hubris of grad students. Anyway a random sampling of some I’ve come across is:

  - EPICS
  - TANGO
  - Bluesky (not that one)
  - QCodes
  - Sardana
  - yaq

The general problem is (1) i have a heterogeneous mix of hardware that speaks a bunch of different protocols from SCPI serial commands to VISA over USB, to bizarre proprietary things and (2) I want to be able to talk to it from one central computer and (3) ideally have some level of standardisation or abstraction so I can express an experiment like move <stage> from <x> to <y> in <n> steps and at each step fire <laser> and measure <signal> while logging <temperature>.

Anthropic seem to be creating the n+1 version of those packages and presumably doing some harness work to make Claude good at using it.