faust

Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis (by grame-cncm)

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  • Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025)
    105 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2025
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    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2024
    That's also a big reason why I prefer appimages.

    ossia score's AppImage is 100 megabytes: https://github.com/ossia/score/releases/tag/v3.2.0

    Inside, there's:

    - Qt 6 (core, widgets, gui, network, qml, qtquick, serial port, websockets and a few others) and all its dependencies excluding xcb (so freetype, harfbuzz, etc. which I build with fairly more recent versions than many distros provide)

    - ffmpeg 6

    - libllvm & libclang

    - the faust compiler (https://faust.grame.fr)

    - many random protocol & hardware bindings / implementations and their dependencies (sdl)

    - portaudio

    - ysfx

    with Flatpak I'd be looking at telling my users to install a couple GB (which is not acceptable, I was already getting comments that "60 MB are too much" when it was 60 MB a few years ago).

  • My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2024
    Glicol looks very cool! Also check out Faust if you haven't (https://faust.grame.fr), another FP sound programming language.
  • Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023
    The linked (https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust) looks reasonable to me.

    Chata probably needs to work out roughly what the semantics of the language should be. Its good to know what the library support is intended to be as that informs language design (assuming the library is to be implemented in chata anyway). Quite a lot of this page is about syntax.

    There are some design decisions that have deep impact on programming languages. Reflection, mutation, memory management, control flow, concurrency. There are some implementation choices that end up constraining the language spec - python seems full of these.

    Echoing p4bl0, implementing the language will change the spec. Writing a spec up front might be an interesting exercise anyway. I'd encourage doing both at the same time - sometimes describe what a feature should be and then implement it, sometimes implement something as best you can and then describe what you've got.

    Implementation language will affect how long it takes to get something working, how good the thing will be and what you'll think about along the way. The usual guidance is to write in something familiar to you, ideally with pattern matching as compilers do a lot of DAG transforms.

    - I'd say that writing a language in C took me ages and forced me to really carefully think through the data representation.

    - Writing one in lua took very little time but the implementation was shaky, probably because it let me handwave a lot of the details.

    - Writing a language in itself, from a baseline of not really having anything working, makes for very confusing debugging and (eventually) a totally clear understanding of the language semantics.

    Good luck with the project.

  • Faust: A functional programming language for audio synthesis and processing
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2023
  • Live + Python = ❤️
    1 project | /r/ableton | 11 Dec 2023
    Faust integration would be awesome: https://faust.grame.fr Then again we have MaxMSP, so in the end it feels kind of redundant
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  • Csound
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Sep 2023
    Csound is extremely powerful, but my favorite thing in this vein these days is Faust:

    https://faust.grame.fr/

    It's a functional language with a nice way of generating diagrams of DSP algorithms, but its big killer feature for me is its language bindings, which include C, C++, Cmajor, Codebox, CSharp, DLang, Java, JAX, Julia, JSFX, "old" C++, Rust, VHDL, and WebAssembly (wast/wasm) out of the box.

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    Have a look at FAUST as well: https://faust.grame.fr/
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grame-cncm/faust is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

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