It’s grating to see Haskell compared to labview, regardless of context lol

Haskell is a fun language...

LabView is a kick in the pants...

I'd wager it is the installed base keeping LabView on life support. =3

Labview seems like a pain (I haven't used it), but I guess it's super useful for some uses. I recall SpaceX uses it for controlling launches. It comes with models for all manner of hardware.

I really loved LabView

NI rarely made established software better after a company acquisition.

Generally, IT and Engineering agreed to deprecate their product lines off critical systems about 2 minutes after the deal went through. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpE_xMRiCLE

NI has niche instrumentation product lines that have been around for some time.

Yet, the modern licensing model jettisoned a lot of their long time proponents. Like many things in life, most problems were non-technical in nature.

SpaceX is an interesting company, and it made some unique design choices. =3

> but I guess it's super useful for some uses

It comes with device interfaces (not exactly drivers, but some times it has drivers too).

All right, I even never heard of Labview programming language, haha..

But labview is what happens when there's a project that needs hardware automation and has lots of budget but no desire to make in-house tools.

And the house already used labview the last time that happened.

Haskell at least is fun.

My favorite Julia also made the list this year... nonzero users means there is hope for fun languages yet.

With the new Intel+NVIDIA RTX SoC deal, we can expect Python and C++ to dominate that list in the next few years. =3

Dozens of us use Julia. Dozens!!

A few more actually, even though it gets ignored in most HN discussions,

https://juliahub.com/case-studies