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Originally Posted by Tom Line
As more and more suppliers service FRC, this was the next logical step for FIRST. However, I'm very concerned about the number of suppliers who will choose to not support LabVIEW at all with their code.
Unless FRC creates some way of gently nudging suppliers to supply LabVIEW code as well, I suspect that by the end of the year there will be a new answer to the question 'which language is best to use for a robot'.
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Most third party providers will provide C bindings, and I've been told that LabVIEW has built-in stuff to easily interface with that. I suspect that if a piece of hardware was cool enough that an advanced team would help out the manufacturer with LabVIEW bindings (provided the third party doesn't have a restrictive license). A great example of this happening is the NavX LabVIEW bindings.