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Why we need an “Enumerated Variant” Datatype in LabVIEW - New Article by Jim Kring

Mar 25, 2024 2:50:44 PM Published by JKI Leave a comment

There's a new article on medium by JKI team member...

Founder and CEO at JKI

Title: Why we need an “Enumerated Variant” Datatype in LabVIEW

Excerpt: Enhancing the G Language with “Rust-like” enums

Preview:

"Note: If you like this idea and would like to explore the code or vote on the idea to get NI to implement it, there are links at the bottom of this article.What is an Enumerated Variant?The idea is fairly simple, for each item in an Enum, we can associate a specific data type. This allows us to create a new data type that can be one of a few different types where there is a name associated with each type.Note: This is similar to a “tagged union” or “sum type” in other languages. Check out zig..." Click here to read the full article.

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