Class library translation to Python

[email protected] Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:57:56 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.supercollider.devel
Message-ID <CAFu0fFf_+D3wPXRUfwc5oxe2v=TmTMiwtBVu3LEnkFKE7K+UaA@mail.gmail.com>
Dear people

From some time now I'm doing a translation of the main features of the
SCClassLibrary from SClang to Python https://github.com/smrg-lm/sc3. It's
still in alpha but it has the most important features, server control,
synthdef building, routines and timing and sequencing.

The main reason for doing this was Python itself. While working on
different projects I realized that there are many things that would have
been much easier to do and to interface with, and because Python is
arguably a more accessible language for many people.

There are many undecided things yet, I'm trying a different approach for
patterns now because event and event streams are less practical in Python.
Also, because there are no backward compatibility issues I implemented some
historically wanted changes like removing muladd parameters from ugens and
rename or reorganize things in Server and other classes. Also, because it
is pure Python (so far and with no optimization, just trying to get things
working right at first) I was playing with clock queues and logical time so
as to implement an nrt mode that doesn't fragment the programming logic
between rt and nrt (not finished yet).

Besides it is a completely different language my intention is to keep all
the good things and usability of the environment and some degree of sync
with sclang's library and SuperCollider's idiosyncrasy.

I'm letting you know so if there is someone interested in collaborating or
making suggestions or just trying the thing out, I will be glad to hear
from you. Also I want you to know that I'm very open to interaction with
the main project if there is any interest at any time.

Regards
Lucas