LabVIEW
LabVIEW Pros vs. Cons?
@Synaesthete wrote:
I've since put LabVIEW behind me. It was difficult to switch careers as no one has heard of LabVIEW, and those skills aren't apparently transferrable to other types of software engineering, at least as a resume item. Perhaps LabVIEW has value as a benchtop tool. But as a profession as a software engineer, it's a very poor choice. You can get kind of stuck.
In the industry I'm in, people take you seriously if you have LabVIEW certification. Too many companies have been burned by people who claim to be experts, and then hand over spaghetti code that us unmaintainable. Not only have many of them heard of it, it is the goto solution for automated testing. It is far more than a benchtop tool, and I've never found myself stuck. I've seen others get stuck when they didn't think about the design before they started, but that can be said about any programming language.
@Hooovahh wrote:
@Synaesthete wrote:
I've since put LabVIEW behind me. It was difficult to switch careers as no one has heard of LabVIEW, and those skills aren't apparently transferrable to other types of software engineering, at least as a resume item. Perhaps LabVIEW has value as a benchtop tool. But as a profession as a software engineer, it's a very poor choice. You can get kind of stuck.
In the industry I'm in, people take you seriously if you have LabVIEW certification. Too many companies have been burned by people who claim to be experts, and then hand over spaghetti code that us unmaintainable. Not only have many of them heard of it, it is the goto solution for automated testing. It is far more than a benchtop tool, and I've never found myself stuck. I've seen others get stuck when they didn't think about the design before they started, but that can be said about any programming language.
I fully agree, but he described doing some kind of development on web platform now and if that is the main task then there are certainly better tools than LabVIEW (or .Net or whatever). But that likely also means he never really was into work in the industrial areas where LabVIEW really excels.
Considering that C++ is really just some OOP extension to C and that is about slightly above assembly language, it would be strange if there is any programming language out there in which you could do something that can not be done in C/C++. Often less efficient but efficiency seems not a criteria for many. :smileyvery-happy
On the other hand, programming FPGA in C/C++ would be a very interesting exercise. 
@rolfk wrote:
Considering that C++ is really just some OOP extension to C and that is about slightly above assembly language, it would be strange if there is any programming language out there in which you could do something that can not be done in C/C++. Often less efficient but efficiency seems not a criteria for many.
I'll give you that. I will freely admit that LabVIEW is more efficient.
@natasftw wrote:
What is it about LabVIEW that makes people so fanatic about it in one way or the other? All languages have pros and cons. What makes the pros and cons of LabVIEW so emotional for users?
I'd wager it has to do with the unique and different fact that it's graphical while all others are text. It's basically the same as comparing books with film, which is better? They offer different and unique experiences, and the same skillset can't really be transferred, only the fundamentals (in this example, a good story is good in both, how you tell it is fundamentally different)
/Y
