Java vs Labview

[Alan Anderson]

I wasn't going to enter the discussion about speed of development, but that last comment compels me.

Originally Posted by Patrick Chiang

Imagine if you had to do a perfectly reasonable conditional like (a && (b || c) && (d < e + f * g)), the race is over for LV at that point.

First off, I'd hardly call that a reasonable conditional. But even so, you're totally ignoring the fact that LabVIEW wouldn't have those variables in the first place. The Java code that would have set them prior to evaluating the condition has no counterpart in a LabVIEW program.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein

Doing something in a way that Java makes easy will obviously favor doing it in Java. On the other hand, doing it in a way that LabVIEW makes easy favors LabVIEW, and so on.