WIPILib vs. LabView?

[Pneumaticsman]

hey which program do you guys think would be better to program the robot with this year? I was just wondering this cause I'm kinda curious if you guys know if one is better than the other

Thanks

[nickmagus]

I myself am more comfortable with C++ and I think it will offer greater flexibility and more complicated algorithms. That being said LabView is supposed to be nice and easy if your not doing anything to complicated. I would go with C++ (and I am).

[GregT]

I sort-of tried to address this question briefly in another thread:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=14

Basically, they are both equally capable programming languages. Some people prefer C++ because procedural programming is more familiar to them. Don't dismiss LabVIEW as a toy-language just because it's "programmed visually".

Personally, I'm going with LabVIEW since it tends to be more syntactically forgiving and more intuitive (and hopefully easier to teach).

[Boydean]

Our team is using Labview this year. After thinking about it, we decided this because we wanted to minimize the how much coding we had to do in the long run. Basically more time in front of the whiteboard solving problems and less time on the computer implementing the solution. We believe after learning Labview's all-in-all flow of things, it will in enable this.

[Tom Line]

Labview.

We wanted to try something new - and labview allows C programming inside boxes (after a fashion) if you want to do something really fancy that labview doesn't support easily or natively.

[Uberbots]

labview's paradigm of implicit parallelism (and dataflow) had me sold the moment i tried it out. Its fascinating when you can just draw two loops next to each other and know that they both execute at the same time!

labview's ability to create clusters and pseudo-datatypes on the fly is also very nice, and the ability to look at a diagram and see what its doing without too much hassle is also a plus.

i beleive the perfect control system is a combination between labview and c++, considering you can do library calls within labview to DLLs compiled in c++ (or other languages)

[kyungjin]

I'm going with WindRiver C++ cause text seems to make a lot more sense than all these different color shapes and boxes that seem to confuse me even more...

Also, I guess cause I'm more comfortable with C++, it's a no brainer for me... The problem though is... getting used to WPILib Robotics Library and it's functions and classes... ugh...