What's new?

[Bob_Schor]

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@EricR wrote:

Good afternoon everyone.

Normally, NI engages in a lot of product roadmap and feedback discussions at events like NI-Connect (formerly NI-Week).

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Wow!  When was this "bomb" dropped?  Of course, with CoVID-19, NI-Week 2020 was cancelled, and plans for NI-Week 2021 haven't (yet) been announced (or at least I haven't heard about it), but what is NI-Connect?  When is NI-Connect?  Where is NI-Connect?  Who (is involved with) NI-Connect?  How (do you find out about) NI-Connect?  Why (are we transitioning to) NI-Connect?  [Who can tell I worked on the school newspaper?].

Bob Schor

[Bob_Schor]

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@Bob_Schor wrote:

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@EricR wrote:

Good afternoon everyone.

Normally, NI engages in a lot of product roadmap and feedback discussions at events like NI-Connect (formerly NI-Week).

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Wow!  When was this "bomb" dropped?  Of course, with CoVID-19, NI-Week 2020 was cancelled, and plans for NI-Week 2021 haven't (yet) been announced (or at least I haven't heard about it), but what is NI-Connect?  When is NI-Connect?  Where is NI-Connect?  Who (is involved with) NI-Connect?  How (do you find out about) NI-Connect?  Why (are we transitioning to) NI-Connect?  [Who can tell I worked on the school newspaper?].

Bob Schor

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Did a little investigating of my own.  Web Search for NI-Connect returns a hit -- it's a not-for-profit children's service agency in Australia.  However, a search for "NI Week 2021" also gets a hit, saying that (again, due to CoVID-19) NIWeek 2021 is being replaced by NI Connect (note the hyphen has disappeared), July 27-28, 2021.

Sorry I missed this announcement, but I hope to be "virtually" present ...

Bob Schor

[crossrulz]

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@Bob_Schor wrote:

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@EricR wrote:

Normally, NI engages in a lot of product roadmap and feedback discussions at events like NI-Connect (formerly NI-Week).

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Wow!  When was this "bomb" dropped?

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A week or two ago.  For more details: https://www.ni.com/en-us/events/niweek.html.  And there is a FAQ link as well.

[sth]

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@EricR wrote:

RT will be available as a 64-bit module.  

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YES!  (and the word "finally" also comes to mind)  This will allow moving forward on a number of fronts.

I don't know how big an effort that was, but it is appreciated!

-Scott

[UrsL]

Thank you Eric for the briefing here!

Is NXG really being dropped or is this fake news? Nevertheless, I would not be unhappy about such a move since I never touched it anyway. In fact I think it's better to focus on extending the Classic LabVIEW to new topologies. As I am testing LV21 PDS on the new MacOS 11.3 Big Sur I am happy for the port to the ARM powered Mac's. So far I have not encountered an unusual amount of problems. OK, so far I worked on some rather basic stuff but all my bigger apps that don't rely on DAQ access ported well.

So I am happy and I don't feel left behind by NI. After all these are difficult times nowadays and LabVIEW still is a very special kind of programming environment which helps us to precisely interact with the real world (that's why driver access is IMPORTANT). I don't think there is another environment that matches in this domain. Keep on wheeling NI!

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@UrsL wrote:

Is NXG really being dropped or is this fake news?

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NXG isn't dropped at all. LabVIEW NXG is discontinued though.

NXG will still be used for SystemLink and other software.