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1. wasmai+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-06 12:16:59
I’m not sure about that. I used to use LabView and its various libraries often. The whole thing felt scattered and ossified. I’d take a python standard library any day.
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2. pjmlp+O5[view] [source] 2025-12-06 13:14:51
>>wasmai+(OP)
Yet most EE engineers rather use a graphical tool like LabView or Simulink.

Not everyone is keen doing scripting from command line with vi.

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3. sallve+i6[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-06 13:18:22
>>pjmlp+O5
Maybe it’s different for those actually working in the profession and n=1 but in my (many) years of studying EE I never used these tools even once.
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4. amluto+1Q[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-06 19:30:17
>>pjmlp+O5
I once interned at a lab that used a piece of surely overpriced hardware that integrated with Simulink. You would make a Simulink model, and you’d click something and the computer would (IIRC) compile it to C and upload it to the hardware. On the bright side, you didn’t waste time bikeshedding about how to structure things. On the other hand, actually implementing any sort of nontrivial logic was incredibly unpleasant.
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