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Re: Java vs Labview

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
LabVIEW isn't an obviously useful skill if you intend to pursue a career in programming. But if you just end up needing to do a little bit of programming as part of your engineering job, and especially if you want to write programs to interface with lab instruments, it's good to know.
Depends on the employer. Where I work, we place a low value on knowing any particular language, and a high value on being able to conceptualize, learn quickly and pick the right tool for the job.

If I need someone to build a large scale stream processing system, say to process a million messages a minute from deployed IoT devices, LabVIEW experience would be quite useful, no matter how the service was implemented.
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