[mikets]

Just to add another data point to your consideration. If you ever want to use source control to manage your code, LabView, being a graphical programming language and saved as a binary file, is very difficult to work with using source control because you cannot do a "diff" between two versions of the code as easy as the text-based language. Although I heard somebody said there may be a graphical diff tool from NI, I did not find any hint of that anywhere. But of course, I didn't look very hard since we do not use LabView.