SuperCollider 4: First Thoughts

[dkmayer]

@muellmusik

but at the end of the day institutions are people, and with the best will in the world it’s very difficult to maintain such things if there isn’t on the ground individual commitment.

So true !

@muellmusik

All of which is not to say that couldn’t work, but just to be careful around that issue. A targeted and funded research project (a la Flucoma) with clear aims and a limited timeline could work better at making some big steps forward, though it can be hard to sell the kind of maintenance, reworking, fixing work that FLOSS projects often need to funders looking for exciting projects.

Totally agree with that. Flucoma is one example, Christof Ressi’s vst plugins are another one – e.g. see [vstplugin~] – A Pd external for hosting VST plugins | Revista Vórtex for the history.