LabVIEW vs C/C++

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Lagging, in the sense that some of the features that aren't as in demand might not be in the C++ libraries. For instance, SPI is very basically implemented in Labview, but isn't implemented at all in the C++ libraries. Or not yet, at any rate.

When the beta teams received the software, the C++ version of the WPI Robotics library was more complete then the LabVIEW version. Especially with the WPI Robotics Library, they want both environments to be the same, but they won't withhold a feature that is ready in one environment but not the other. It's really a matter of which developer is available when (and not that features will always be available first in a certain language)

Once a feature is implemented in one environment, it shouldn't be too hard to implement it in the other one. Since a lot of the WPI Robotics library is built around the FPGA, once you know the right FPGA calls (which you get from the other environment), it's not hard at all.