LabVIEW subscription model for 2022

[MrMattPayne]

Saying that "we understand this... likely impacts your active and future plans," the company suggests moving platforms.

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Every time I see a company suggest "moving platforms" to stay with them, I want to bang my head into a wall. Sometimes it's better to not say anything at all. I hope your sale to Emerson was worth it.

[Konan__]

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@WavePacket  ha scritto:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/10/11/labview-programming-app-abandons-the-mac-after-four-decad...

I thought higher priced subscriptions were to bring with it more resource for support and features. Beginning of the end?

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should have been abandoned many years ago.

Who develops on MacOS? 0.1% of the 0.1% ? Apple also changed silicon, and building for Apple M1,2,3 chips is just losing money

[Hooovahh]

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@Konan__ wrote:

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Who develops on MacOS?

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Students.  If NI is content with not brining in young talent, and only have old guys develop in LabVIEW then ending MacOS support is a fine decision.  If they want to support academics then the decision isn't as clear.

[dj_tony]

who in production use macos? if you really want to use LV it is better you use windows or linux. and btw works fine on VM. except connections to specific HW.

if i'm wrong fell free to correct me.

maybe reroute macos money to develop a 64bit worknig LV.

or fix embarassaing zero day bugs.

[rolfk]

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@dj_tony wrote:

who in production use macos? if you really want to use LV it is better you use windows or linux. and btw works fine on VM. except connections to specific HW.

The problem with that reasoning is that LabVIEW needs also young people wanting to work with it in order to stay relevant for anything else as the next Cobol, where a few dinosaurs can earn a lot of money to keep ultra legacy applications, that are crucial to some operation, running.

And in some countries, universities use predominantly Macintosh computers. 

maybe reroute macos money to develop a 64bit working LV.

I use 64-bit LabVIEW regularly and have no problems with it! Yes, if you need some specific Toolkits and insist on using older LabVIEW versions than about 2022, then you might have trouble. Solution is to use a recent LabVIEW version or not using that specific Toolkit. Other than that there is really no big issue with 64-bit LabVIEW since at least 2017 or 2018.

[dj_tony]

i pay big money for an obsolete sw. based on old buggy library. of course if needed i use something els. but why the work in this way. 

and still macos user are more or less in america

100 million people worldwide.

based on percentage of macos lv user, maybe is worth using a VM. otherwise the new young adept is clear that don't care . 

a part from that. what i see i more tha doubled SSP price. LV is not mine nymore starting from 2021 (if they don't change mind). hoping Emerson will do better. regards

[YouBeGood.LikewiseKevin]

Tony,

Sometimes the community prefers to spell it like this:  LabVIEW.

You be good.

Likewise, Kevin