Thread: Pros and cons of using Labview?
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Re: Pros and cons of using Labview?
If you are carrying over any Java experience, it's probably best to carry on with it.

3946 has been using Java from the beginning. We selected it because it is the most generally useful of the languages available once people leave FRC. Unless you do virtual instrumentation on NI hardware, odds are that you will never find another use for LabView. Java (and C++) are useful in a wide variety of fields. Of the two, we selected Java because it does have a lot of "safeties" in its implementation of object orientation; troubleshooting a bit of bad pointer arithmetic in C++ can drive experienced programmers nuts. Java and C++ are also friendlier on the mentors' eyes.
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