I felt much like stephan, in that
if I wasn't live coding I wasn't welcome. this idea was, of course,
wrong - I had "prejudged" the chuck community prior to actually
checking it out for myself.
Yes, that's not just wrong, I think it's fundamentally silly idea in that nobody could go from not using ChucK to livecoding in one step.
I think everybody is welcome and everybody is invited to livecode if (s)he wants to but those are quite unrelated. To me it would be quite sad if some single dogmatic way of "playing" ChucK would be established.
I'm so excited about this tool that I can barely stand it. finally, a
toolkit without a gui! yes! and it does everything you could want it
to do. besides, as stated before it is jack/midi/osc aware, so it
*should* play nicely with other apps that are the same.
Yeah, exactly. Some people are using ChucK to make a Monome controler talk to Ableton Live, I've been using it to turn gaming devices into MIDI controlers, it makes a great "glue" between aplications and devices. I think that aspect of it will only grow with the Wii interface rumoured and maybe future suport for sysex-MIDI.
Kas.