National Instruments has announced that their visual programming language tool LabView will no longer be supported on Mac, leaving the platform after being on Mac since the original 1984 Macintosh.
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This has come to a surprise for many as LabView has been legacy software on Mac for four decades, having originally been a Mac exclusive in 1986. However starting next year, they will no longer be developing updates of the software for Mac, with the 2023 Q3 version of the software being the final version for macOS. From now on, any new versions of the software will be Windows and Linux only.
Any owners of the Mac version of LabView are granted the Windows and Linux versions for free, additionally can continue to use the latest Mac version indefinitely should they so choose to.
This is starting to become a trend. First Valve announces they will no longer support their games on macOS anymore with Counter Strike no longer supporting Mac but Windows and Linux only, and now another legacy Mac app has just abandoned the platform. There's something clearly wrong that is making developers unhappy and wanting to leave, and I suspect it's because of Apple's lack of compatibility support and stupid API policies not giving developers what they want and making their jobs needlessly difficult. Apple better shape up quick otherwise the ARM Mac revolution is gonna be stopped dead in it's tracks as more developers will probably start leaving.
Final release for macOS support for NI Software
Hi everybody, Opening this post as I can't find the announcement from NI nor can I find it on this forum. I would like to share the following email with you about the latest release of LabVIEW on macOS. I am sorry to hear that LabVIEW announces that NI will will stop supporting LabVIEW on...
This has come to a surprise for many as LabView has been legacy software on Mac for four decades, having originally been a Mac exclusive in 1986. However starting next year, they will no longer be developing updates of the software for Mac, with the 2023 Q3 version of the software being the final version for macOS. From now on, any new versions of the software will be Windows and Linux only.
Any owners of the Mac version of LabView are granted the Windows and Linux versions for free, additionally can continue to use the latest Mac version indefinitely should they so choose to.
This is starting to become a trend. First Valve announces they will no longer support their games on macOS anymore with Counter Strike no longer supporting Mac but Windows and Linux only, and now another legacy Mac app has just abandoned the platform. There's something clearly wrong that is making developers unhappy and wanting to leave, and I suspect it's because of Apple's lack of compatibility support and stupid API policies not giving developers what they want and making their jobs needlessly difficult. Apple better shape up quick otherwise the ARM Mac revolution is gonna be stopped dead in it's tracks as more developers will probably start leaving.
