[AlexanderTheOK]

I've already been a part of two switchovers from labview to Java, and both times the team has gained quite a bit.

I could rant about all of the benefits we have received out of it, but many have already been mentioned in this thread.

One thing that hasn't been however, is that you can use both... at the same time. I give credit where it's due: Labview is phenomenal for viewing things. I've found that the graphing on the dashboard has in particular allowed much faster PID tuning.

Thankfully the WPILibraries give us a way to send data between robot code and Labview dashboards. This means you can have Java code running on the robot, and tune PID, and even do vision processing on the dashboard. Best of both worlds.