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Did you happen to catch the announcement a while back (LV2010 era) that LabVIEW source was being compiled to DFIR (DataFlow Intermediate Representation) and then to LLVM IR (Low Level Virtual Machine) before being compiled to target-specific machine code? Let's look at LLVM a moment; it's exciting. This acronym is not just some LabVIEW R&D mumbo jumbo; the LLVM compiler is something that has cause quite a stir in the programming community for some time now. In 2012 -- two years after NI R&D publicly announced that LabVIEW was leveraging LLVM -- LLVM won the ACM Software System Award. Who else has won this yearly award given to only one project? Ever heard of, say, UNIX? Java? The World-Wide Web? Eclipse? Apache? Shite -- i guess this makes LLVM A Big Deal. A couple top-notch articles I've caught recently include: "IR is better than assembly": https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-24-ir-is-better-than-assembly/ "Kaleidoscope and the Lexer": http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/LangImpl1.html And my favorite, for the dear memories and sheer genius of this guy: "Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go": http://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html This stuff is blowing my mind, and I'm really glad to know LabVIEW has hitched its wagon to LLVM. Keep it up, Compiler Team -- chime in here and tell us more.