Why doesn't NI officially notify death of NXG? When??

[Tepig]

Our Commitment to LabVIEW as we Expand our Software Portfolio

I believe this is very large announcement but we haven't received any notification via email.

Does NI plan to deliver the info to all LabVIEW developer via email?

If not, does it mean we all must check community post or other working SNS such as LinkedIn everyday?

[cbutcher]

If I was guessing, I'd imagine that it might be also 'announced' (or at least, reiterated) at e.g. the launch of NXG 5.1? This is the last version, etc.

If you find out "early", via these forums or LinkedIn, obviously that's better, but I'm not sure it's fundamentally different.

I'd further guess that the majority of people who've registered an email address with NI don't use (or perhaps even care about) NXG. This announcement would seem to support that guess, at least in part?

So if everyone received an email about a product they don't care about being discontinued a year and a half or so in the future (edit: here I mean the time that you might expect a v6, for example. I suppose effort on NXG will stop much sooner), I expect few would appreciate it.

Just my quick guesses.

[DanielKu]

It would also be interesting to know whether we will then get tools that allow the code to be ported wherever.

With NXG I developed a very large project containing over 400 VIs last year and I always hoped that one or the other error in NXG would finally be eliminated. Instead, some things will be fixed and replaced with new bugs.

I can well imagine that only a few NXG use them. The frequency of crashes has decreased in the last versions, but unfortunately it is still very present.

I can only hope that in the end I don't have to port this project to the 202x, which is technically outdated and confusing.

The associated wasted time should actually be billed to NI. After all, NXG was touted as the "successor".

Personally, I am very upset about this decision. I also work with 4k monitors and unfortunately (with 100% scaling) you cannot work with the classic LabView at all, because you only have a few pixels for the connections.

It is a shame that we cannot respond to the post directly.

Daniel

[Tepig]

Thanks cbutcher, I strongly agree with your guessing. Yes, posting forum and LinkedIn is the fastest path to notify the decision.

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As DanielKu mentioned, we developed some application with NXG. Many LabVIEW developer welcome the announcement but we don't.

We were planing to develop new project with NXG but stopped because of the announcement. we were lucky. But how others???

I hope NI officially announces the decision with well reached way "SOON".

[Tepig]

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@DanielKu wrote:

It would also be interesting to know whether we will then get tools that allow the code to be ported wherever.

With NXG I developed a very large project containing over 400 VIs last year and I always hoped that one or the other error in NXG would finally be eliminated. Instead, some things will be fixed and replaced with new bugs.

I can well imagine that only a few NXG use them. The frequency of crashes has decreased in the last versions, but unfortunately it is still very present.

I can only hope that in the end I don't have to port this project to the 202x, which is technically outdated and confusing.

The associated wasted time should actually be billed to NI. After all, NXG was touted as the "successor".

Personally, I am very upset about this decision. I also work with 4k monitors and unfortunately (with 100% scaling) you cannot work with the classic LabView at all, because you only have a few pixels for the connections.

It is a shame that we cannot respond to the post directly.

Daniel

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I know how you feel and me too. All my 3 months NXG training project is wasted. I created training slides, demo application, etc but it's no longer worthless. I'm interested in how NI will care many NXG developer.

[BasilB]

Why does NI not make an official announcement to the user of LabVIEW NXG that LabVIEW NXG won't be continued after the version 5.1?

What will happen with the VIs developed with LabVIEW NXG? Will there be a opportunity to convert it back to LabVIEW? Or are the last three years developing with LabVIEW NXG wasted time?

How does LabVIEW 2021 will look like? Will it still use the ugly graphics from the old LabVIEW?

I'm looking forward to any answer from NI

Best regards

Basil

[RavensFan]

I'd say that NI made an official announcement that they linked to in a message at the top of the LabVIEW board.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Our-Commitment-to-LabVIEW-as-we-Expand-our-Software-Portfolio/m-p/4...

As for LabVIEW 2021, I think you actually meant to say that it will not be using the ugly graphics that were being used in LabVIEW NXG.

[RTSLVU]

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@BasilB wrote:

Or are the last three years developing with LabVIEW NXG wasted time?

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Frankly this is exactly why I did not waste any energy on NXG. 

[tyk007]

I do agree that a post on the forums is not the right way to alert your current paying users of NXG. I know one company whose engineers rarely frequent the forums and were surprised when I mentioned it. Luckily they were only part way through scoping a new NXG project.

I expect a more official announcement when 5.1 releases.

Luckily I never bothered with the feature-less NXG myself. A new UI is one thing, missing features is another. One hopes a version of the component system and DPI-scaling are incorporated.

[RTSLVU]

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@tyk007 wrote:

I do agree that a post on the forums is not the right way to alert your current paying users of NXG.

Luckily I never bothered with the feature-less NXG myself. A new UI is one thing, missing features is another. One hopes a version of the component system and DPI-scaling are incorporated.

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But isn't LabVIEW and NXG sold together? At least I was unaware of NXG being sold separately.

In may opinion NXG was still basically in beta and I don't have time for that.