Comment by fluorinerocket

LabVIEW FPGA was amazing, I did all kinds of things with it on the compactRIO controller FPGA

You can write very neat and tidy code with dataflow diagram languages. I did it professionally for years, and there were many others who did as well.

Same thing as any other language, you have to come up ways to organize the code into functions and classes that make sense. Vomiting everything into the top level diagram is the same as 10000 line of code while(1)

You could always tell the exact level of proficiency someone had with LabVIEW immediately when opening the diagram.

The dataflow model maps very well to FPGAs IMO, it's a shame it never became widespread. There was much potential there