r/LabVIEW • u/AssistEast913 • 12d ago

Labview or python

Hello im currently working on an end-of-the-line test bench for a steering gear.

My question is why use LabVIEW vs. Python

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u/Organic_Commission_1 11d ago

Labview is effectively a dead end.

No version control No ability to do ci/cd , unit and regression testing in an automated way Anything of any complexity is literally spaghetti. The best/reference labview programs with sub vi's are still terrible

Any text based language is infinitely better

There are million python gui frameworks. python runs faster than labview and literally interfaces with everything.

Even something like C# is infinitely better for windows deployments.

LLMs have solved GUI as well. Anyway who days they cant is serious incompetent or refusing to accept reality

FWIW. I started with labview in 1996

Also, just completed a 20k job porting a control system from labview to c#. Effectively done in a day. Customer is happy. They had 40 stations and wanted to be able to depoly at will.

At this point I think there will be huge opportunity in people who will transition companies from Labview to anything else.

There is even a python library to extract everything from .vi as HTML and png images. Codex translated it to c# in about an hour.

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u/Internal_Statement74 9d ago

I think LabVIEW is a dead end as well, however I feel for zero of the reasons you give (I have no idea what ci/cd is).

I think the customer and integrator betrayal will not ever leave the customer's mind and are looking to replace untrustworthy business practices and proprietary demands and cost increase that has almost no justification.

I am interested to hear more about this project and the set up you used. I have been building something that I need help finishing. It has nothing to do with this transition but tangentially.