Instrumentation software
When working with measurement instruments, it is unavoidable to need appropriate software. Either for lab automation, data acquisition, or experiment control.
Although the field has been dominated by LabView and National Instruments, the past 10 years have seen a surge in people working with Python to address their challenges. The problem is that most people lack tools to get started efficiently.
From a theoretical standpoint, there is little discussion regarding different approaches to instrument control. From functional or imperative programming, the modeling the architecture via the actor model, the model view controller, or the device experiment view.
I have been working for a long time in the space, and while I am thinking deeply, there are many caveats that escape my understanding. Python for the Lab has triggered some discussions, but definitely not deep enough.
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