It interfaces extremely easily with _lots_ of obscure measurement devices / cameras / sensors / step motors and other hardware, and makes it trivial to make gra

It interfaces extremely easily with _lots_ of obscure measurement devices / cameras / sensors / step motors and other hardware, and makes it trivial to make graphical user interfaces for them. It compiles to machine code and has an easy model for concurrency. In a previous job I made computer vision-powered robotics for food and agriculture, and it was almost entirely LabVIEW with some things implemented in C for speed. Even with years of experience I found it a pain to work in though, compared to text based languages.