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Re: LabView/C++ equally capable?

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Originally Posted by Ivan Helmrich View Post
I'm wondering if perhaps the readability of C++ vs. the "black box" nature of LabView has something to do with it. I tried to dig into the LV to see how the video was processed and got pretty discouraged pretty fast.
The vision kernels are in fact a .out file, and are equally black box to all languages, as is the FPGA. If you'd like to ask questions about the LV or C++ image processing, I'll be happy to shine some light on them. I think very quickly, we'll rediscover that there are a few layers of user native language code, and below that you jump into a library. This is the case for all of WPILib.

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