It's not "rude", and it's not "mean" to describe something accurately. Using those adjectives is simply projecting your emotions onto a technical discussion.
LabVIEW is a cash cow that NI pushes on schools and junior EEs to make them think they're software developers, it allows them to write horrible cruft that is generally impossible to maintain. In almost every case I've seen, it's actually easier to rewrite the whole mess from scratch rather than try to decipher what someone a decade ago did as a hack that got turned into something people depend on.
You're clearly one of NI's rabid fans, you believe what you believe, but if you take personally criticism of a really poor tool, you know the rest..
I can create things in LabVIEW if I have to, I've done it and I've debugged and rewritten other people's abominations in it as well. The concept of visual programming languages is badly flawed for a variety of reasons and LabVIEW portrays each of them thoroughly.
jki275|7 years ago
LabVIEW is a cash cow that NI pushes on schools and junior EEs to make them think they're software developers, it allows them to write horrible cruft that is generally impossible to maintain. In almost every case I've seen, it's actually easier to rewrite the whole mess from scratch rather than try to decipher what someone a decade ago did as a hack that got turned into something people depend on.
You're clearly one of NI's rabid fans, you believe what you believe, but if you take personally criticism of a really poor tool, you know the rest..
I can create things in LabVIEW if I have to, I've done it and I've debugged and rewritten other people's abominations in it as well. The concept of visual programming languages is badly flawed for a variety of reasons and LabVIEW portrays each of them thoroughly.