My personal experience: yes to the NI hardware, but no to LabView. I used LabView during my graduate work and as someone who came from a traditional programming

My personal experience: yes to the NI hardware, but no to LabView. I used LabView during my graduate work and as someone who came from a traditional programming background, I struggled with it. More recently (almost a decade later) I had the opportunity to migrate a LabView project to Measurement Studio (NI's .NET libraries for interfacing with their H/W) and it was night and day. The NI stack works as it should and it is so much more manageable with C#.