Tidal VS defect-process

So you’re wondering what would making music with code look like? The tools I’m familiar with are TidalCycles, Sonic Pi, and SuperCollider. I’m having a hard time describing what it’s like to make music with tools like these so here’s a video of a performance. One person is live coding the music and the other is live coding the visuals. I think it’s super cool how the music is improvised and built over time by layering commands. Some keywords you could search to see more examples would be Algorave and Livecoding.

https://tidalcycles.org/ is another great example, parsing patterns of text and printing live music.

For sound live coding/algorave sonic pi and tidal cycles are great, both based on supercollider.

I don't know the alternatives but I'm a big fan of https://tidalcycles.org/. People really do crazy things, check out the videos on the front page.

I love when 2 DJs live-code together (on the same document! Editing each other's loops) or when a VJ live-codes some visuals in reaction to the DJ live-coding the music.

If you're interested in ChuCK, there's also Pure Data (a FOSS cousin of the commercial Max/MSP) and SuperCollider and a lot of live coding algorave sorta music things are built on top of SuperCollider like TidalCycles so you can execute lines of code live via a REPL or evaluating blocks of code in a document and generate beats in realtime.

Tidal Cycles! https://tidalcycles.org/

As layer8 mentioned, it is technically Haskell but more specifically a DSL and environment for live coding music.

Pretty fun to play around with!

After digging deeper, I've found TidalCycles tidalcycles.org and that's my favorite Livecoding software. Now you can start programming music without any cost.

The code written in this regard can be found here. My contributions focused on designing, implementing and integrating the Sequence module with the help of the Context module.

Totally possible. Here’s a link to a game recently released on Steam that is written in Haskell and whose source is open: https://github.com/incoherentsoftware/defect-process

I recently hacked together an asteroids clone in Haskell with SDL2 and not much else. It’s not super pretty but it works.

I’ve talked to folks who’ve been using the newer effects libraries taking advantage of the new delimited continuation primops in GHC 9.6 for their game dev. Even with very high level libraries their reporting acceptable performance.

With enough dedication I’m certain anyone could make whatever game they wanted in an FP language.

And the full code (w/o assets) is available too https://github.com/incoherentsoftware/defect-process

Or as mentioned recently... a game written in Haskell, published on steam: https://incoherentsoftware.com/defect-process/docs/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1136730/Defect_Process/

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Hi I added the full source code for Defect Process to coincide with the full game release on Steam. See the brief overview docs for a high level tour of the code design.

A haskell game on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1136730/Defect_Process/

Over the Christmas break I took some time to study the source code of Defect Process (https://github.com/incoherentsoftware/defect-process) to better understand industry-strength software architecture in Haskell and Game Engines. I have written a longer article about my analysis: https://www.lambdabytes.io/articles/defectprocess/

Thanks, good to hear that learning haskell has been rewarding so far! For code questions later on, feel free to open a github discussion if this reddit thread is inactive at that point.