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To all things there is a season. Jeff Kodosky helped found National Instruments and invented LabVIEW. He inspired hundreds of us who shapes its code across four decades. But Jeff says it is time to change his focus. Today, NI announced Jeff’s retirement. He will probably always be noodling around on LabVIEW concepts and will remain open to future feature discussions. But his time as a developer is done. Maybe you didn’t know that? Jeff still slings code, from big features to small bugs. He’s been a developer most of the years, happy to have others manage the release and delivery of his software. I spent over two decades working at his side. He taught me to look for what customers needed that they weren’t asking for, to understand what problems they didn’t talk about because they thought the problems were unsolvable. And he built a team culture that made us all collaborators instead of competitors. Thank you, Jeff, for decades of brilliant ideas and staying the course to see those develop into reality. Your work will continue on as one of the key tools on humanity’s expansion to Mars.

My $0.02... FGs / AEs / LCODs have proven themseleves as excellent constructs for many years (config file library comes to mind). Yes, they can be abused (I can abuse anything). Yes, they can get out of hand with quick fixes (the quick fix is to blame not the AE construct). Just because we have another tool (e.g. LVOOP) in our bag doesn't mean we need to throw out the old ones... maybe we just need to protect them better as suggested above. BTW... aren't you the one who said "...[don't] throw the baby out with the bath water" awhile back? ~Dan