[fritzdejongh]

We chose Labview for our 2009 rookie year after a control system workshop. With Labview, the virtual instruments (controls and indicators) are great, and the debugging is great. These seem to be the "killer apps" for Labview. There didn't seem to be anything comparable for C++. Did we get the wrong impression?

Also, with Labview it's very clear what's going on with parallel processing. You can write C like code blocks if you want for equations. And, you can certainly do hard things with it, for example, camera tracking was available in Labview. I can imagine that for advanced OO programming and AI that Java and C++ are much better, but for FRC I haven't heard of any "killer apps" you especially get with C++, it seems mainly to be a good choice if it's what you already know.