Labview: A Ballsorter

[Dave Scheck]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

It's the industry standard, and time-wise, can be much more efficient than C.

I'm really getting frustrated with statements like this. While Labview may be AN industry standard, it is not THE industry standard. Go onto any job hunting website and search positions requiring Labview expertise. Now compare that to what you find for C++. I'm very confident that you will have a large discrepancy in the number of hits you find.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but mine is that a good programmer will be able to write circles around someone using Labview. Another engineer on the team I (both skilled programmers) tried the demo at Championship and was amazed at how ridiculously complex it was to do something simple like do a direct mapping of joystick to motor that we could have done in one line of C code (ignoring all of the libraries since both languages have them).

I also think that all of these hoops that you guys are jumping through to post images/videos of your code is ridiculous. Sharing, collaborating, and requesting help should be a simple task. Text based languages are inherently set up for this.

Also, has anyone considered version control? How do you diff two diagrams? How exactly do you plan on having multiple people working on the same file at the same time and then merging them together? If this is industry standard, a solution must exist. Will this be provided to teams using Labview?

I will go so far as to say that version control is more industry standard than Labview. Why isn't there a push to educate teams on this subject?

I'm sure there are teams that are going to do some wonderful things with Labview, but you won't see it coming from us.