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A pure python PyVISA backend

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Update index.rst #405

Closed jackparmer closed 5 months ago

jackparmer commented 11 months ago

Add a link to Flojoy project (PyVISA-py GUI)

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arr-ee commented 11 months ago

Would you care to elaborate?

jackparmer commented 11 months ago

Sure thing. Flojoy is building a drag & drop GUI for interfacing with instruments through PyVISA-Py (or PySerial). Examples of instrument connectors already built using PyVISA-Py can be found here: https://docs.flojoy.ai/blocks/hardware/. It seems like there could be something like a "Projects using PyVISA-Py" section on the homepage to help visitors navigate what's available in the growing Python T&M ecosystem.

arr-ee commented 11 months ago

There is precious few projects using pyvisa-py, since it doesn’t make sense to use directly — surely you know that.

Seeing a zero-effort advertising PR for a soon-to-turn-non-free project promising “gui” over same old unsafe and non-reusable patterns of access to instruments does exactly fill me with excitement — but that’s just me, of course.

MatthieuDartiailh commented 11 months ago

I am not opposed to providing some exposure to flowjoy (since it may benefit PyVISA), however I agree that making it at the level of pyvisa-py makes no sense since it is merely a backend for pyvisa and that I doubt flowjot is re-inventing the PyVISA layer.