Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?

Re:Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing? by exmadscientist on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:32PM (#23268153)

I'm mostly referring to the analog sections of a few PXI cards I've looked at. This was in the context of "turn this benchtop prototype built with PXI into a form-factor product". I was surprised at how simple most of it is. There are a couple TI/BB highly-integrated PGA/ADCs that NI gets a lot of mileage out of.

But even if it's not as complex or interesting as, say, a Keithley electrometer, NI's execution really is top notch. Technical brilliance alone does not a product make.

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing? by elteto on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:34PM (#23268428)

I see. My experience was with medium test stands (couple of thousands of channels) in a more industrial setting, we didn’t really need high-accuracy or specialized ducers (there were maybe one or two of those and we usually wrote custom software for talking to then). Reliable, accurate enough and with strong platform support was killer for us. I don’t think anyone beats NI at that level of integration.

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