LabVIEW is a Language or Tool??

[Manu1991]

Hi All,

There are few arguements I am facing since 1.5 yrs :

1. I would like to say LabVIEW is a language like C, C++, Some people will argue like it is a Tool.( I wont say its not a tool but more than that i prefer to say its a language)

2. As per i heard in NI Conferences there is a G code running inside the LabVIEW functional blocks( like add,subtract, loops etc). but people say that there is a C,C++ Java  code running inside that. Is it?

Please share your views

Correct me if I am wrong.

[James.M]

What is LabVIEW?

[aputman]

Another What is Labview?

[uChiron]

LabVIEW Compiler.

[Sam_Sharp]

LabVIEW is the name of the Development Environment (IDE) - e.g. like Visual Studio.

G is the name of the graphical programming language you program with LabVIEW.

As for your second question - like other languages, you can compile your LabVIEW (I really mean G here, but it's more common to refer to it as LabVIEW) code into DLLs and call them from other languages and also call code written in other languages (e.g. .NET / C DLLs) from within LabVIEW. I believe that quite a lot of the LabVIEW IDE and some of the functions are written in G itself (a term called dog-fooding) and some of them are written in other languages (e.g. C++).

[Manu1991]

Graphical Programming language 

[Manu1991]

Thanks for the reply Sam 🙂

[crossrulz]

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Sam_Sharp wrote: I believe that quite a lot of the LabVIEW IDE and some of the functions are written in G itself (a term called dog-fooding) and some of them are written in other languages (e.g. C++).

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My current understanding is that the core of LabVIEW is written in C# now (once upon a time, it was C++, likely C before that) and then much of the IDE (like Quick Drop) is written in G.

[DailyDose]

I've heard the argument that something like LabVIEW is not technically a language unless it can compile using itself.  For instance... C code is compiled using C.  But I honestly treat LabVIEW as a language.  Only because as I throw down For Loops and While Loops I am thinking in terms of text based code.

Throw down a For Loop and attach an initialized array into the walls and I have successfully written:

For int i = 0; i++; i<=Size Of Array_TestArray   (something like this, syntax probably not 100% accurate)

So... in my mind this is a visual language.  If Sign Language (which is visual) is considered a language, then so is LabVIEW.  *Mic Drop* haha

[James.M]

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@crossrulz wrote:

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Sam_Sharp wrote: I believe that quite a lot of the LabVIEW IDE and some of the functions are written in G itself (a term called dog-fooding) and some of them are written in other languages (e.g. C++).

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My current understanding is that the core of LabVIEW is written in C# now (once upon a time, it was C++, likely C before that) and then much of the IDE (like Quick Drop) is written in G.

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This sounds right. Last NI core developer I talked to said he spent half his time in C# and the other half using G.