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Re:The Top Programming Languages 2025 by chamomeal on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @09:33PM (#45355184)
It’s grating to see Haskell compared to labview, regardless of context lol
Re:The Top Programming Languages 2025 by Joel_Mckay on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @09:37PM (#45355208)
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

Re:The Top Programming Languages 2025 by 7thaccount on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:00PM (#45355414)
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.
Re:The Top Programming Languages 2025 by hooskerdu on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:05AM (#45356177)
I really loved LabView
Re:The Top Programming Languages 2025 by Joel_Mckay on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @10:07AM (#45360623)
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

Re:The Top Programming Languages 2025 by Joel_Mckay on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:38PM (#45356033)
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

Re:The Top Programming Languages 2025 by marcosdumay on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:55AM (#45356448)
> 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).

Re:The Top Programming Languages 2025 by zeeqeen on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @03:50AM (#45357495)
All right, I even never heard of Labview programming language, haha..
Re:The Top Programming Languages 2025 by a96 on Monday September 29, 2025 @06:51AM (#45412222)
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.