Is using Labview GUIs unprofessional?

[paul.r]

Challenge him to a programming competition 😃

Seriously though, if you are a competent LabVIEW developer, and study UI design a little bit, you can absolutely make UIs that are on par with modern web apps in terms of style and usability. 

I would be extremely confident that I could produce a better looking, works just as well application in significantly less time than a similarly skilled C developer. 

[Intaris]

Side note:

We re-designed our UI a few years ago, heavily customising the look of the standard LV controls (but staying with standard LV controls, no .NET or anything like that).

One of the common answers we got to that was, Oh, I see you stopped using LabVIEW.......

Mission accomplished.

[nathand]

Would it be helpful to supply examples of major companies that ship LabVIEW applications for testing? Here's one I recently used:

https://wiki.analog.com/resources/eval/user-guides/circuits-from-the-lab/cn0326

This is an application from Analog Devices for verifying the performance of their pH measurement evaluation kit. I'm sure it's not an isolated instance of LabVIEW within Analog Devices.

[crossrulz]

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@nathand wrote:

Would it be helpful to supply examples of major companies that ship LabVIEW applications for testing?

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Just watch the NI Week keynotes the last few years and you will see a lot of big names saying how they are testing with LabVIEW.

[billko]

Not a great picture, but... you get the picture!  (Pun DEFINITELY intended!)

(VERY small sample - this pun wasn't intended.)

[theking]

Thank you all for the input. I think that regardless if this manager will be convinced or not I have learnt a great deal from the discussion in here. Off course a poorly written code is a slow code regardless of the language and I understand that his opinion and judgement are mostly based on past experiences with poorly written Labview codes (due to the low entry point). 

Thank you all again 

PS: I really liked the Labview under the hood thing.