title: Why people don't use LabVIEW for purposes other than data acquisition and virtualization?
body: <p>This is marked as a subjective question, I hope I won't get too many down votes though.</p>
  
  <p>LV seems to offer a nice graphic alternative to traditional text based programming. As I understand, it's not a just-virtualization/data acquisition programming language. Nonetheless, it seems to have that paradigm pegged to its creator's name.</p>
  
  <p>My question comes up because it doesn't seem to be widely used for multi-purpose applications. I'm not a LV-expert of any kind, I'm more like a learner. I'm still getting used to LV.</p>