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Hi all, friendly LAVA moderator here. I'd just like to gently remind everyone we are all human, and are at times emotional, and at times frustrated with colleges we interact with. Lets all take a deep breath and try to continue to give criticism in a form that will be most helpful. I know I've at times flown off the handle online, especially on the subject of NXG. I personally don't think I've shared code between projects for anything real project anytime recently. But I can remember times that I did it and didn't have any real problem. Likely because I was mindful of what effected what. X do you have some recent examples of code you shared between projects? What made you make that decision, and why were the other options seen as less desirable? Also it sounds like this isn't explicitly forbidden in NXG.

I like the side discussion here. About the future of LabVIEW. I've been in the field for close to seven years now and I constantly ponder if relying my carrer on LabVIEW is a wise decision. Because I mean, I'm no junior anymore, and just as much as by chance as by choice LabVIEW has become my speciality now, and changing track is harder and harder for each year. Last year I attended my first NI Week and to judging from NI's marketing it was clear, according to me, that they have moved away from the use case of an engineer/scientist with a benchtop instrument controlled by a Windows PC with LabVIEW. Measuring a voltage or communicate with a IC-circuit or something like that. And I can understand why. That is a solved problem and you can just as easily do it with Python/Arduino/Raspi (everybody knows atleast one scripting language these days). A lot more focus was on (physically) big system wide solutions, mostly for testing within the semiconductor industry and radio/5G. And I guess that makes sense aswell. These are areas where hardware matter and the price point is still quite high. Perhaps their vision is that you will buy a full solution from NI in the future and only use the GUI (LabVIEW) for some small tweaks? So where does that leave full-fledged LabVIEW developers? I don't know. As a career advice I wouldn't recommend anyone who wants to be a pure software developer to go for LabVIEW. But I honestly believe using a high-level tool like LabVIEW has its benefits like allowing you to be a domain expert in the field you are operating in while also allowing you to be a develop the stuff without having to focus too much on grit. And I hope having that combination will still make me employable.