NI abandons future LabVIEW NXG development

[Jordan Kuehn]

12 minutes ago, Rolf Kalbermatter said:

While I prefer non-violence, I definitely feel more for a sword than a gun. It has some style. 😎

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

5 minutes ago, Jordan Kuehn said:

That was very lame of Indy! 😆

[hooovahh]

On 1/23/2021 at 11:14 AM, Rolf Kalbermatter said:

That was very lame of Indy! 😆

It was but does give us some character development.  Showing the exhaustion on his face, and surrounded by dozens of people that might attack.  He kinda is like, nah I'm done I got other things to do. 

Also likely considered murder since it would be difficult to claim self defense.

[crossrulz]

12 minutes ago, hooovahh said:

It was but does give us some character development.  Showing the exhaustion on his face, and surrounded by dozens of people that might attack.  He kinda is like, nah I'm done I got other things to do.

But  the real story:  Harrison Ford was sick and so the director just off-the-cuff said to just shoot the guy.  A big sword fight was originally planned, but instead we got one of the most iconic movie moments.

[hooovahh]

9 minutes ago, crossrulz said:

But  the real story:  Harrison Ford was sick and so the director just off-the-cuff said to just shoot the guy.  A big sword fight was originally planned, but instead we got one of the most iconic movie moments.

I think this was mentioned in the video I linked to.  I was just thinking about how much work the stunt coordinator, and stunt men had training and planning for a thing that just never happened.  It probably happens a lot in the film industry but as someone in the digital world I tend to keep even the work that I never actually use.

[X___]

On 1/22/2021 at 11:00 AM, X___ said:

I am reading through that lingo and am trying to extract the substance. What I read is that she was hired by NI for a specific job, did (or not) do it and was, if not fired, at least forced into a situation which led to her resignation after about a year on the job. That sounds rather short to me, but it is true that I am not privy to the way things are working on modern corporate boards. Maybe that is the new trend. I suspect there is more to it, and that her opinion that the business was run in a very outdated manner (saying that on a podcast sounds to me very non-politically correct) may have been the main reason. After all, her title is/was Chief MARKETING Officer, not Chief OPERATING Officer. Then there is the question of whether the "Good Ol' Boys" club might have reacted unkindly to a female outsider (I am not clear what her Dell and Rack Space background means in terms of her tech-savvyness. After all, she appears to have a BA in architecture and seems to only have held marketing positions).

It appears that the Green Lady of NI has moved to even greener pastures: IBM - Biographies

Can't abbreviate IBM (I?) but the website could use some of that pastel green and washed out pink palette NI has ambitiously engineered his website with.

[Volker Hampel]

I wanted to try NXG with my existing cDAQ-Equipment and ist did not work.

Reason NXG can not handle LAN-Devices in the Network.

So i still used Labview the old way.

[Neil Pate]

12 hours ago, yardlypaul1 said:

Tell me one thing  I want to collect multiple item online for my children. Tell me online clothing stuff is good quality or not.

I can say without any doubt that online clothing stuff is good quality or not.

[X___]

On 3/13/2021 at 3:10 PM, X___ said:

It appears that the Green Lady of NI has moved to even greener pastures: IBM - Biographies

Can't abbreviate IBM (I?) but the website could use some of that pastel green and washed out pink palette NI has ambitiously engineered his website with.

Hmm... I guess not anymore:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martyswant/2022/01/18/ibm-chief-marketing-officer-carla-pieyro-sublett-departs/?sh=18db8f8b4daa

Edited March 10, 2022 by X___
Edit for clarification: CPS was introduced in my post here: https://lavag.org/topic/21849-ni-abandons-future-labview-nxg-development/?do=findComment&comment=134692 in an attempt to understand what was going on within NI before, during and after NXG's end

[Jack Parmer]

At Flojoy, we're picking up where NXG left off:

Flojoy is free, open-source, and installable on Windows, Mac, and Linux. We're only 3 months into building the software, so keen for any feedback, suggestions, or ideas from the LAVA community (please leave your comments in the post linked above).

[Igor Titov]

On 12/4/2020 at 12:07 AM, hooovahh said:

In 2014 I had the privilege of being in on one of the early discussions around what would be NXG, before I was a Champion, and I think I was just a CLAD.  They were interviewing each person one at a time with a set of questions and the last one was "What is your biggest concern with this decision by NI?" and my answer was some thing like "What are NI's plans if this fails?"  Saying that this is my career they are potentially messing with, along with the negative effects internally at NI.  They sorta laughed it off and said how unlikely it was but that they would do their best to go back to supporting the more classic LabVIEW.  It probably is the right decision for them to make, but also a very difficult one.  If it were me I'm not sure I would be able to see past the sunk cost fallacy.

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...

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

2 hours ago, Igor Titov said:

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.

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). 😁