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Re:No-code in manufacturing: automation without programming by tediousdemise on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:05PM (#28791406)
Whenever I see no-code in relation to manufacturing automation, only one piece of software comes to mind and it's LabVIEW.

I have nothing nice to say about LabVIEW. It's the very reason I changed my career from electrical to software engineering.

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Re:No-code in manufacturing: automation without programming by ngrilly on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:12PM (#28791482)
What you didn't like about LabVIEW?
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Re:No-code in manufacturing: automation without programming by tediousdemise on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:51PM (#28792572)
With LabVIEW, I found the inability to use the git version control system extremely limiting, along with vendor lock-in/licensing and difficulty debugging VIs.

Programming graphically has its merits, but I think for large organizations it ultimately becomes a huge headache when employed in production environments and that they would be better served by a text based programming language such as python. In my opinion, it works far better in lab environments and for rapid prototyping.

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