Hi.

It would be good to hear from the devs about what ChucK is up to right now, but I want to point out that development hasn't stopped. The GitHub source code repo shows quite a few changes were just checked in, including what appears to be a new "chuck-engine-2017." I just pulled the changes and I'm curious to read the source code and see if there's are new features or a performance bump.

I would say that there is a need for improved documentation--always a huge problem in FOSS--and the recent Kadenze courses and book are a move in the right direction. It would be really nice to have some updates from the devs and a way to build the community around ChucK. Maybe that's more on us than the devs.

Joel

On 01/13/2018 05:19 AM, mario buoninfante wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to ask the same question about the development status.

the only thing I can say is that also if the development seems to be a bit stuck, on the other side I noticed that they're pushing on the educational side (see Kadenze courses), and if you look at the github repository, there's been some update in the last 2 years.

but as you guys said, it's important to know what's the plan ;)

it's a couple of years I'm really diving into ChucK and I strongly believe that is a good programming language which opens up a lot of possibilities that other languages don't.

but at the same time I feel like it's been a bit abandoned (maybe that's a huge word, let's say put aside ;) ) and of course using a "tool"  which has an "uncertain future" it's not the best thing.

I wish I was able to offer my contribution to the development, but unfortunately I'm not really into C/C++, I'm more a "scripting language guy" :)

btw, it would be nice to hear what developers and/or other users have to say about it.


cheers,

Mario



On 12/01/18 22:14, Gonzalo wrote:

Yes, I'm wondering the same thing. There's a Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1593843507578422/) but it doesn't look super active either.

As far as static strings: I'm pretty sure you just can't have static non-primitives. What are you trying to achieve?

Cheers,
Gonzalo


On 13.01.18 00:20, Atte wrote:

Hi

I've been away for a long time and surprised that activity seems to have slowed down a lot, both on the development of new releases chuck and the life of this list. Am I looking at the wrong places? What's the status of chuck development now and in the future?

I really like chuck (mostly the timing and sporking including Machine.add()), should I look other places for a language that will privide a more secure future? I'm on linux and looked at Csound, Super Collider and PD, each has it's challenges in how I work (realtime generative and algorithmic MIDI), python seems to have realtime problems (garbage collection at random points). Any idea what former chuck users have switched to now?

Back to chuck! A problem that I never been able to solve, static strings:

public class A {
     "b" @=> static string B;

     public static void C(){
    <<<B>>>;
     }
}

That throws an error, how would I go about what I'm trying to do?

Cheers

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