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Back in 1991 I worked on Labview at a university lab. It seemed amazing for the time.
For a teenager migrating from Basic - Labview seemed a fantastic improvement.
It felt incredibly powerful to draw boxes and wires to make multiple scientific instruments gather data.
I do remember spending a lot of time on alignment, plus there was no code revision at the time...
However, the lab moved to custom C based workflow. It was great on a personal level - writing low level drivers etc.
Part of the reasoning was that at some point the scientists needed a custom UI and it was actually easier to create one with C than with Labview.
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Back in 1991 I worked on Labview at a university lab. It seemed amazing for the time.
For a teenager migrating from Basic - Labview seemed a fantastic improvement.
It felt incredibly powerful to draw boxes and wires to make multiple scientific instruments gather data.
I do remember spending a lot of time on alignment, plus there was no code revision at the time...
However, the lab moved to custom C based workflow. It was great on a personal level - writing low level drivers etc.
Part of the reasoning was that at some point the scientists needed a custom UI and it was actually easier to create one with C than with Labview.