I fully agree. We saw one here yesterday (my timezone), actually.

In that thread, another HN commenter posted this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_audio_programming_la...

I used ChucK in college, and considering its functional use in performance art of many kinds, I'm seeing a lot of these proverbially "reinventing the wheel" in different syntax....ad nauseum.

Where I see the real potential is using the native language of DAWs (digital audio workstation) like Protools, Ableton, and leveraging their native languages to write new scripts and library extensions for hardware.