Curiosity on why most teams choose LabView

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Originally Posted by Mike Copioli

Our team uses Windriver primarily because our team has many students who are programmers. Programmers use programming languages. Labview is written in a programming language. I suspect that it was written in c/c++.

LabVIEW is written both in C/C++ and LabVIEW. LabVIEW can also target and program a variety of micro controllers including ARM and ADI Blackfin. It can be used the write software for Mac, Linux, and PC.

I personally enjoy the flexability that programming languages provide. They are universal allowing developers to write software for a variety of processor platforms.

Are .NET and Cocoa not programming languages by this definition?

But, we should all probably quick hijacking this thread... Back to the original question - I think LabVIEW is a good choice because it can lower the barrier for entry for computer programming without preventing teams from writing powerful software. LabVIEW is also a great icebreaker for those who find the syntax of text base programming difficult, but still want to learn the basic computer science concepts that are shared across all programming languages.

While working tech support last year I told many teams that were successful with LabVIEW to experiment with C++ in the off season. You can only benefit by challenging yourself and learning as many languages as possible to prepare for college and your career.