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Sonic Pi was done in clojure once upon a time. Looks like ruby now?

Sam previously worked on Overtone, which is a Clojure library for driving the Supercollider synthesiser. I understand that he decided to create Sonic Pi in Ruby in order to make it more accessible to beginners. (And Ruby was all the rage back then.)

I haven't used Overtone in many years but it looks like it's still going: https://github.com/overtone/overtone

That must be what I was remembering. Thanks for the link.

It's been ruby for a long time.

I recall at some point the author started working on yet another version which used its own language instead of a ruby DSL but I don't know what happened with that

https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/announcing-sonic-1126...

I nerd-sniped myself porting SuperCollider's scsynth audio DSP engine for that Tau5 project. This then turned into SuperSonic (https://sonic-pi.net/supersonic/demo.html). I then wrapped SuperSonic back into a native form and used it to replace scsynth in v5 of Sonic Pi (https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/releases/tag/v5.0.0).

I'm now working on a new audio DSP engine which builds on all this learning which combines my favourite parts of scsynth and Erlang. I'll be discussing and sharing progress over on my Patreon (https://patreon.com/samaaron).

As a sneak peek - here's an experimental prototype of the kind of direction I'm headed in: https://sonic-pi.net/tau

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