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Re: FRC Java or Labview?
Both Java and Labview (and C++, of course) have competed at the highest levels. The question is what is right for your team? How many programmers already know each language, how many mentors are comfortable in either language, and how many mentors are willing to learn the other?
We have been a Java team from 2012 to 2016, but we're looking at only one student who's done any significant programming being on next year's team. Our steady programming mentor for the first five years is backing out a bit (maybe more) due to marriage, moving, and a new job that will send him to sea in various places around the world.. If our new programming mentor wanted to switch to LV, this is probably the year we'd do it.
Repeating the bottom line - which is better is much more dependent on your internal capabilities than any abstract "betterness" of the program language. The only considerations outside your team should be online support. LV, Java, and C++ all have decent support on CD, but perhaps one or two of these languages has better local/hands-on support from nearby teams.
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