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It takes a different mindset but clean and legible LabVIEW code can be written. There was a small community of professional LabVIEW developers who generally write very legible and good code. Different from what most people are used to but good. I left that world years ago because the writing was on the wall, LabVIEW was going to die no matter what you could do with it.

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I spent a lot of time in LabVIEW as well. I stopped with it way back when Active-X was thing and I got sick of always having to interface LabVIEW with Active-X controls.

LabVIEW is great for certain things, I think it has potential for others, but it's just too limited for general purpose computing.

Perhaps more important than anything is the fact that you can't just download it and use it like almost anything else these days. I don't think that has changed. It's not cheap either and they've switched to a subscription model.

LabVIEW is still used a lot in Aerospace. Definitely due for a replacement at some point.

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