Comment by bjcy

If you wouldn't mind me (your friendly, neighborhood National Instruments programmer browsing HN) asking, could you expound a little more on other things you've found horrible with LabVIEW?

I completely understand your sentiment on debugging and maintainability. I've done my fair share of quick-and-dirty apps that did one little thing wrong and a million highlighted executions and five years later, I've finally got a handle on what's wrong (mind you, I'm nowhere near a LabVIEW expert).

I love our documentation tool as well. We call it Context Help, and as you highlight over different parts of your code diagram, it's handy to see a quick, readable summary with links to full documentation for every single node and system available in LabVIEW.

If only all IDEs had the same functionality and it's the reason why I'm super psyched to see Light Table come out. Ready to be blown away.