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Originally Posted by CFH
cons is that find it harder to read and there is a bit of a learning curve, and the fact that virtually nobody learns it before first and will virtually never be used in the outside world
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In the past three months, I've seen LabVIEW and NI hardware used on a series of fiber optic connector inspection systems, a gasket inspection system, a medical device testing system, and a robotics lab at MIT. LabVIEW's vision toolkit is incredibly powerful, and is simply the best when it comes to extremely high accuracy 3D imaging needed in inspection systems. It's used in the robotics lab over matlab/simulink simply because the hardware support/debugging tools are superior.
If you major in computer science, you'll be very familiar with text based object oriented languages, but the large majority of CS majors (at least the ones at my school) will never have done any significant work in LabVIEW. I know people who have been offered paid internships that led to jobs just because they were familiar with LabVIEW and most other applicants weren't.