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I spent a long time online with YouTube support and finally got to the bottom of it. The Channel is back, and all the links work!

The idea about NXG in terms of how "bad" the old code base was, always struck me a bit like "throwing out the baby with the bathwater". And while I wasn't involved in any of the user sessions about NXG myself, from the things I heard, I got the impression that they were mainly trying to look for an echo chamber instead of real constructive critique. (Probably one reason I did not get contacted as I never held back about not being a cheerleader). 😁

I was at a similar meeting with NI in 2014 (in Geneva, CERN). Their concern about old LabVIEW codebase was legit, but it seems they didn't even want to hear our concerns. I had about the same experience as you when they laughed it off. My concerns were "why to change the block diagram GUI? don't do it", "VIs should be compatible, don't make two parallel incompatible versions of LabVIEW", "why you're using WPF for front panels? Ditch it completely and get html5 compatible vector graphics engine like V8 for Chromium, use open source heavy lifting for the 'view' layer. You already had funny experience with Silverlight, why you wanna do the same sort of folly again?". On my last concern they replied that it's a strategic partnership with Microsoft that matters, and everything will be ok...

When do we get vector graphics in LV?

I am glad that didn't ve time to install NXG 😀

Hopefully this alleviates any concerns about LabVIEW becoming unsupported in the future in favor of NXG.