[Alan Anderson]

My opinion: Bleah. That's a sticking-out-tongue bleah, not a shrugging-shoulders one.

LabView is useful, powerful, and appropriate in some contexts. In my opinion, a project with thousands of programmers creating thousands of individual programs with many shared features is not one of those contexts. Learning the LabView "style" of programming does not carry over well to other development environments (and vice versa).

If FRC were to start providing LabView-based robot control systems, I think the pool of helpful programming mentors would shrink drastically. Even with experienced programmers standing by to help, it's a lot easier to do text-based support on a forum like Chief Delphi than it would be to try to assist someone having problems with a graphical programming language that hides details behind separate layers of views.

(I have programmed using LabView, and I use LabView-developed systems regularly.)