This is (now) open source project expecting community pull requests. How many would they get if they went with LabView? The big emphasis that I like seeing in modern scientists is reproducibility of results. Jupyter Notebook is a huge step in that direction (not really applicable here), but just using open source platform is still great.

I agree though that once algorithms are developed sufficiently they should be ported to RTOS platform and this box shouldn't be permitted on open roads.