[chuck-users] Future ChucK: wish list items and one comment
Michael Heuer
heuermh at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 12:40:49 EDT 2008
Ge Wang wrote:
> Greetings Inventor and all!
>
> Just a quick note of things on the way, some of which is in progress now,
> others to happen largely this summer:
>
>
> > I look into my crystal ball and I see the future of ChucK, AKA my wish
> > list:
>
> I like what your crystal ball shows, for it is almost completely in line
> with our current TODO list...
>
>
> > o MAUI ported to PC/Linux (on the way, woohoo!)
>
> woohoo, indeed!
>
> > o fix noteOff () problem
>
> Hopefully by summer!
>
>
> > o String Processing: preferably inspired by Perl
> > o Garbage Collection
>
> I see these things going together. Hopefully by end of summer!
>
>
> > o File I/O: I want to save and load program settings
> > o printf (): formatted text/numeric output.
>
> Andrew Schran, Rebecca, and I are working on this, building on existing
> work by Martin Robinson and others. ETA: end of summer?
>
>
> > o Hierarchical Events: i.e. event when any button in an array is
> > pressed
>
> This is an often requested feature, we still need assess a few things
> before going forth on it. Huh, I said "assess"...
>
>
> > o MAUI Expansion: Text I/O, File Browser, 2D drawing, 3D drawing, etc.
>
> There are actually even more encompassing, MAUI-friendly, plans for a
> cross-platform 2D/3D graphics/OpenGL ChucKian API in general, which
> would include among other things a 3D-accelerated UI programming
> interface. Probably not this summer though.
>
>
> > o Tube Amplifier UGen
> > o Piano STK Instrument
>
> No plans for these yet, but hopefully with the to-be-improved UGen/UAna
> import system, it'd be easier to add chuck-ins! Also, there is a
> prototype fluidsynth UGen in development (by Kyle Super) that loads and
> plays soundfonts.
>
> One of the reasons that things are going slowly: while we love rapid
> development/releases when it's appropriate, we also believe that it's
> important to make sure certain things (particularly new API and
> syntax/semantics) work as elegantly as we can make them and can support
> extensions down the line. As for the lack of developer documentation,
> this is indeed a huge gap we need to address. We'll priority boost
> that, hopefully an early summer project.
>
>
> > And there is one observation I'd like to share... Aside from it's
> > musical capabilities, the one outstanding feature of ChucK to me is the
> > way that everything works together. ChucK is very Apple/Linux-like in
> > the way that it seems to be so well thought out. Of the dozen or two
> > languages I've played with over the years, ChucK has got to be the most
> > fun and the easiest to code because stuff just plain works. So my hat's
> > off to the dev ChucKists, us user ChucKists are having a blast with your
> > hard work!
>
> Wow, thanks! This means a super great deal to us. We'll keep on
> ChucKin', and are stoked you are doing the same!
>
> For those about to ChucK... we salute you!
> Ge!
>
> PS: MAUI pong is ridiculously sweet... this, along with Perry's recent
> MAUI-based octave-band spectrum analyzer (which we'll hopefully witness
> soon!), deserve awards for The Most Unholy/Unexpected/Clever Use of
> ChucKian Technology of the Month.
Hello Ge,
What do you think about others contributing to the development
process? The user community doesn't have a good way to maintain
patches or other contributions. Some examples for instance are posted
to the wiki, some as attachments to the forum.
I for one really need 64-bit on linux working, but I am hesitant to
contribute because I don't know what the process is.
Perhaps we need 1) read-only revision control system access so that we
can generate patches, 2) an issue tracking system of some sort to
submit patches to, and 3) a sourceforge or similar project for chuck
users to maintain other contributions (examples, Objects, UGens, etc.)
Regards,
michael
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