grain VS glicol

Compare grain vs glicol and see what are their differences.

grain

The Grain compiler toolchain and CLI. Home of the modern web staple. 🌾 (by grain-lang)
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grain glicol
3 128
3,128 1,926
0.6% -
9.1 6.0
5 days ago about 1 month ago
Reason Rust
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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grain

Posts with mentions or reviews of grain. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-24.

glicol

Posts with mentions or reviews of glicol. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.
  • Velato: A programming language where source code must be a valid MIDI music file
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024
    Interesting!

    Similar note-based expression can be found on TidalCycles/Strudel. although it's not valid MIDI format anymore, you can use notation like c4, f3, and make them as "pattern". Samples are also supported in the same manner:

    https://strudel.cc/

    And in my project Glicol, I use only numbers in the seq node. So 60 means middle C. Underscore means rest.

    https://glicol.org/

  • We were not accepted into Google Summer of Code. So, we started our own
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2024
    I also applied with Glicol (https://glicol.org/) and got rejected, which is totally understandable. I am basically working this project on my own with almost zero extra funding.

    I am currently working on a new website. The old stack is Vite, Svelte and Windi CSS (discontinued unfortunately). So this time maybe Astro + Solid + Tailwind.

    And I am also trying to rewrite the whole Rust backend if possible, so there is quite some work to be done.

    Let me know on GH or Discord if you are interested.

    It's a good chance to try Rust, WASM, DSP, etc.

  • My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2024
    This is a really informative and inspiring article.

    It hasn’t been 6 months (not 6 years) since I quit my full-time job as a Rust developer to start my own business.

    As time goes by, I can feel the pressure of mortgage and car loans, and I can also feel the care and pressure of my family.

    My original plan was to make an interface for Glicol (https://glicol.org), and to develop relevant hardware with firmware written in rust for school education.

    I sent some cold emails to VCs, but most of them got no reply.

    I also sent an email to the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, offering to perform for children for free, but they didn’t reply for two months. I shamelessly sent it again, and someone finally replied with a rejection.

    Only one VC talked to me and thought that I should convince and validate a partner first, and he suggested that I go to an incubator.

    Very good advice.

    Later I learned that even Norwegian education startups skipped Norway and focused directly on the US market.

    People from the incubator also told me that it is impossible for Norwegian schools to accept new things independently.

    This is very enlightening to me because most of Glicol's visitors are indeed from the US. And it took me so long to discover this fact.

    But if I don’t start, I’ll never get past those six months.

  • Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
    I picked up LOGO when I was 6 and leant Pascal and C later.

    I didn't program for a few years because I wasn't interested in competitions. So I think interest is the most important, otherwise it will be easy to get lost and give up.

    Later, I became very interested in programming, mainly because I came into contact with music technology.

    I think since your child is interested in game development, it is a good choice to start step by step. For example, starting with threejs. I also recommend learning Rust and Bevy so you learn the underlying layers and ECS.

    Last but not least, although it's not related to games dev but I sincerely invite you and your son to try Glicol (https://glicol.org), the project that I am developing.

  • I quit my job to work full time on my open source project [Atuin]
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024
    I quite my job as well to work on

    https://glicol.org

    I have a lot of feelings, but I don't have a blog so far. But one of my feelings is that universities should alloc some of their funding to many of these open source projects and open source community should be better managed rather than donation. My plan is to start my own company and work on hardware .

  • Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2023
    Looks great!

    I am working on some similar concepts but for music programming:

    https://glicol.org

    I feel that it would be great if there could be some examples on the landing page directly.

    When I try a lesson, I get stuck; The hint is on the right but it's not very obvious; perhaps you can rearrange it like Svelte Tutorial (https://learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/welcome-to-svelte)

    for the syntax I am not sure; have you considered using LOGO?

  • Show HN: Koelsynth – a simple FM synthesis library
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2023
    nice work!

    Have you tried to port it to WASM?

    Python can also call it with wasmer

    I ported https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol for my Python audio project using the same method

  • Opusmodus: Common Lisp Music Composition System
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2023
    If you are interested in code-based composition, try my project:

    https://glicol.org

    I am still working on the composition system, together with many other stuff

    here is an example of Bach:

  • Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2023
    https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol

    you can check my project; audio synthesis in browsers without gc

    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2023
    The more code-oriented folk might like Glicol https://glicol.org/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing grain and glicol you can also consider the following projects:

Sonic Pi - Code. Music. Live.

assemblyscript - A TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly.

supercollider - An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.

kaleidosync - A WebGL Spotify visualizer made with Vue, D3, and Three.js.

vst-rs - VST 2.4 API implementation in rust. Create plugins or hosts. Previously rust-vst on the RustDSP group.

soundboard - Simple soundboard app with MIDI control

typebeat - Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth

green-metrics-tool - Measure energy and carbon consumption of software

sioyek - Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

faust - Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis

fpp - Falcon Player

Milvus - A cloud-native vector database, storage for next generation AI applications