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Hopefully this is okay to post here, but I am excited to join a new company as an Elixir software engineer. I have spent my career using LabVIEW, particularly using the actor model for hardware-based systems, so I’m excited to grow my skills using Elixir, which is a natural place to move towards given my interest in functional languages and concurrency. I’m super excited to learn the Elixir/Erlang/BEAM ecosystem I think the BEAM VM could be an interesting target for many projects.

This should actually be posted in #new-company

This is a perfect use for <#C01932BJGE8|>. And congratulations! If at some point you feel like sharing your thoughts looking back on your time with labVIEW, I for one would find that interesting to read.

That's a great idea <@UC2A2ARPT>! Thanks for that suggestion and interest. I'm hoping to get my personal site up and going sometime this year, and it's a great idea to give a sort of retrospective. I've done LabVIEW a lot and built a fair amount of systems but have felt really plateaued and wanting to try something new. LabVIEW is an interesting beast and one I have a love hate relationship with, mainly because I know its power but can also see what it could be. It's a powerful language: very performant (LabVIEW compiles to a DFIR: dataflow intermediate representation which then goes to LLVM), cross-platform desktop to embedded real-time to FPGA programming with the same language, nice debugging facilities, GUIs in a day, etc. But it's misunderstood by nearly everyone, included its maker, in my opinion.

In the interim, if you're interested, I've began open sourcing some LabVIEW libraries I've had bouncing around for years. The two current ones are automatic differentiation and functional array processing. There's not much documented at the moment, but the screenshots should give a flavor.

<https://github.com/slo-systems/labview-automatic-differentiation>
<https://github.com/slo-systems/labview-functional-array>

&gt; But it's misunderstood by nearly everyone, included its maker, in my opinion.
Sign me up for that blog post!