Stability of LV2012

[raul1234]

I am a new user for Labview and my company want to purchase LV 2012.

but some of the bugs solved in LV2011 SP1 is not included in LV2012 and best to my info LV2012 SP1 is not out,

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/bugs/12/archived--labview-2012-and-2012-sp1-known-issues...

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/bugs/12/archived--labview-2011-sp1-bug-fixes.html

so my basic question is whim should i prefer.

[fabric]

If you are a new user of LV then you might as well start with the latest and greatest: 2012.

The known issues in that release are really only relevant to some very advanced use cases...

[raul1234]

i am new but company would be using it for advanced use.

[yenknip]

Go straight to 2012.

It's currently on version 12.0f3. Most of the items on the list of known bugs are very specific, and even 'advanced' users are unlikely to actually come across more than a couple at the same time.

[Norbert_B]

Every software includes bugs.

That being said, even the "best" software will encounter situations, where it will not work as expected.

So, the big question is: What do YOU (or the company you are asking for) expect?

What type of applications are you going to implement? What kind of interfaces do you use? Do you include existing, external code (DLL, ...)?

You see, there are so many factors to "stability" that no one in the world can give you a guarantuee "that this or that is better/best suited for your tasks".

LV, in my experience, is very stable nowadays and if it crashes at all, it creates reports so that NI can improve the stability further.

As you alreade read in this thread, there are hot-fixes for pressing issues available which NI didn't "defer" to SP1 release. This is a common process for many applications to deal with critical issues (supply of hot-fix that means). So NI is not defining a new way here to fix shipped issues.

Most developers btw never ran into the issues fixed by hot-fixes nor SP-releases. But if you do, you will be very grateful about the fixes available.....

Dealing with instabilites coming from "3rd party components" is never fun and is a problem for all programming languages and developer systems... and it not much a vendor can do about it other than trying to help with support like here in this forum.

just my 5 cents,

Norbert

[mikeporter]

You should definitely go with 2012. It is MUCH more stable than 2011 - which, to me at least, was a great disappointment.

Mike...

[P@Anand]

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@mikeporter wrote:
You should definitely go with 2012. It is MUCH more stable than 2011 - which, to me at least, was a great disappointment.

Mike...

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I haven't started using LV2012 but from my experience 2011 is much stable and good performing compared to 2009. And it is always good to go for the latest as you will get more features and also the ideas given by fellow users are included. One more thing I go for NI software is the support :). 

[joaopam]

Well, my situation is similar to yours.

I've programming since March, and when my company started to build this big project, we weren't sure if LV 2012 was stable enough (it was a few weeks after the release).

I installed the 2012 Developer Suite version (after receiving it by mail), and used it to some minor projects, like an Home Model, which control was performed by serial comm, through a VI that was connected with a Data Dashboard on iPad. It was kind big, but LV 2012 responded above my expectations.

Since you're company is up to lincensing, go ahead with LabVIEW 2012 and I guarantee you'll have no regrets.

Have a nice day and, since you're a rookie in LabVIEW, welcome to this awesome world.

JP

[PaulG.]

I am very leery using any version of software (LabVIEW, Windows, etc) that is less than a few months old. 2012 has been out long enough. You should be OK. Just started using 2012 on my latest project and have had no trouble at all - but this isn't a power application, either. In my experience the biggest drawback using older rev software is that code posts here are more likely to be at a higher rev than what I am using. If anything upgrading to the current version of LV will keep you on the same page with most of everyone else here without the hassle of asking for down-converting or the annoying "file version is later than current version" message.

[altenbach]

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@raul1234 wrote:

i am new but company would be using it for advanced use.

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I have no idea what that means!

It does no matter how simple or advanced the use is if you hit one of the known problems. And since they are known, you can always avoid them.

LabVIEW is very stable and you could program very advanced stuff for years without encountering any of these little issues. The realities are that no complex system is without bugs, and there is a fundamental law that the last bug of a program can never be found. I can guarantee you that 99.99% of the problems you will encounter are due to flaws in your own programming and not due to flaws in LabVIEW.

Is there anything on that list of known problems that is of particular concern to you? If SpaceX can launch rockets into space using LabVIEW, it should be good enough for you too. 😄

I would definitely pick 2012 over 2011, especially because of all the new productivity features.