What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? (2015)
Knowing that the ground control software is written in LabView is one of the more disappointing things I&#x27;ve read recently. I did a bunch of test engineering during co-ops during college, including multiple &quot;codebases&quot; of LabView, plus the normal class coursework and research lab instrumentation. I <i>hate</i> LabView, to the degree that I made a commitment never to apply to a job that has it&#x27;s use as one of the requirements or as part of the desired qualifications.<p>I remember working on a getting a brushless motor test stand up and running using a LabView VI, which was written by one of the senior test engineers a couple years before. After spending days working on it, I eventually went to him for help. He sat down with me and it for another two hours, and even then, he needed to take the code (that he wrote!) and go sit down with it alone the next day for several hours to understand what was going on. If you&#x27;re not working it essentially full-time, on the same codebase, it&#x27;s insanely difficult to maintain any non-trivial code.<p>What makes the situation even a bigger shame is that National Instruments makes Labwindows&#x2F;CVI, an ANSI C equivalent to LabView. The few times I&#x27;ve used it (in a graduate-level experimental physics class), it was so much easier to use and maintain.