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How can you have a website displaying a live-coding language, without a video displaying someone actually live-coding? :P

Seriously though, I'd love to see a video of someone doing live-coding. I've been looking for a good live-coding environment ever since I found fluxus[1], and subsequently found out that development of it had stopped.

[1] http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

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That is an excellent point. I have some videos up (https://vimeo.com/user6866395/videos) but I neglected to add them to the new site.

Wow, hats off to you. I love the part when it watches cpp files for changes, recompiles and then uses the library to patch the live application.

Who said C++ is not productive, please? Alright, all credits goes to Paul. :)

Yeah, that was a fun hack! I think live C++ recompilation is something that is occasionally theorized about, but rarely attempted.

That looks awesome! Great work.

Super cool. Maybe think about just cutting those videos into a 30-second montage to drop onto your landing page until you want to do a proper demo-- for live coding, showing beats telling any day of the week.

That's a great idea. The landing page is definitely looking a little dry.

Why would you think development of fluxus "has stopped"? The mailing list [1] is active enough for such a minority project, and the git repo [2] shows a reasonable activity for a mature (i.e. "done") project, with functionality commits from October last year, and French localisation commits from April this year (last one on the 19th, so less than 24h ago).

[1] http://lists.pawfal.org/pipermail/fluxus-pawfal.org/ [2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/git/?group=fluxus

I say its stopped because it is lacking a lot to get it working on OS X, so its not "done", and the latest release is for 10.5

Fair enough, but "OSX is not as well supported as I'd like" is a far cry from "has stopped development". FWIW, I get the updates just fine through Ubuntu PPAs.

Excepting crashing bugs development depends a bit on when people have time or a need for a new feature but Fluxus is indeed still actively developed. As I see it it's indeed "done" in the sense of being useful for it's intended purpose right now, but there is space for big improvements like redoing the editor itself in Scheme, morefunctionality in the Windows version, etc. I'm personally working on and off on a little library for new ways of interacting with generative music in it. We're alive and well, I'd say.

The project hasn't stopped, but you can find a load more live coding environments at http://toplap.org/

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