Java vs Labview

[marshall]

LabVIEW for us is crazy easy to prototype ideas in and then graph outputs so we can view them. Graphs mean data and data provides answers to questions and allows us to iterate quickly with code.

We've talked about switching to C/C++ but just don't think it is worth it because we would lose a lot of that ability.

That being said, listen to what Greg said above and if you're going to do it then do it in the offseason or don't do it.

Also of note, we have an entire team dedicated to vision processing and programming in OpenCV/C so we use that as an outlet for those programmers who think LabVIEW is too simplistic for them to learn... though a lot of them come back around to after realizing how powerful it is.