For a beginner Labview can be a great step up. Back in 1991 I worked on Labview at a university lab. It seemed amazing for the time. For a teenager migrating

For a beginner Labview can be a great step up. Back in 1991 I worked on Labview at a university lab. It seemed amazing for the time. For a teenager migrating from Basic - Labview seemed a fantastic improvement. It felt incredibly powerful to draw boxes and wires to make multiple scientific instruments gather data. I do remember spending a lot of time on alignment, plus there was no code revision at the time... However, the lab moved to custom C based workflow. It was great on a personal level - writing low level drivers etc. Part of the reasoning was that at some point the scientists needed a custom UI and it was actually easier to create one with C than with Labview.