Right, though I think it would be fairly straightforward to make a bridge. This is all pretty cool, but I think I'd really want something lower level than a RESTful API for streaming data from a SLS or a LIDAR to assemble into a costmap. I see they've included OpenCV in their system but no PCL[1]. I suppose that makes sense since you can just connect a camera to your OpenCV handler directly but when you're using pointcloads you're usually combining a bunch of them.

Of course, when I create my Nim or Rust based robotics framework in my Copious Spare Time I'm going to use a pub-sub network where you can declare topics to be local-reliable (shared memory), global-reliable (tcp), or global-unreliable (udp-based).

[1]http://www.pointclouds.org/