Max is an infinitely flexible space to create your own interactive software

Some past related threads - pretty sure there have been more:

Interview with the Creator of Max/MSP and Pure Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23152030 - May 2020 (24 comments)

Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22346556 - Feb 2020 (65 comments)

Visual programming language Max Msp now exports to C++ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427786 - March 2013 (3 comments)

Tons of past mentions of course: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

p.s. Reposts are fine after a year or so - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Links like the above are just to provide more stuff to read!

It’s an amazing mind opening paradigm - especially since it also makes web UIs that sync As you edit even. (Miraweb feature)

It’s the closest thing to wiring up electronics while the are on that I have used.

It’s not FOSS but I highly recommend playing with the trial for a few hours. The example code is great and very active forums.

Pure data is great too, same idea, same original Creator, has evolved in some Slightly different directions but not as polished.

No connection except happy user for 15 years.

Puredata https://puredata.info/ is the open source max equivalent. Max has integration with ableton, and that is great. But there's very little you can do in max that pure data can't also do.

It lacks VFX features compared to TouchDesigner, also not open source so those two things keep me away from it.

Aside, but the cookie-consent banner does not allow you to opt-out. Why do companies still do this?

Yep, this an ad for max, and it's not open source, but I really like max. It's been a long time since I've used it but I had a lot of fun when I did

This is just an ad for Max, lol.