04-04-2020, 03:38 PM
I think it will remain smaller, though I hope it will find its uses for others as well. Popularity is not a main concern, but I hope some may follow if the basic ideas and design develop into something generally more useful.
There already exist other "music programming language" programs, e.g. csound and SuperCollider, which are much more feature-packed. Much of the whole point of making your own is to go about the language differently.
The language I came up with so far is very short and simple for the simplest things, but way more limited. (I have some ideas for making it more expressive, but there's much I'm still undecided about.)
Ideas or feedback about the language is very welcome, but in part it's the trickiest thing to "invent". Once the ideas are there, the trickiest thing becomes making them work as elegantly as possible, without greatly growing the size of the program. Then comes smaller parts of how the program does this or that, where various options exist (and some stuff will no doubt be done better in this or that program or library).
There already exist other "music programming language" programs, e.g. csound and SuperCollider, which are much more feature-packed. Much of the whole point of making your own is to go about the language differently.
The language I came up with so far is very short and simple for the simplest things, but way more limited. (I have some ideas for making it more expressive, but there's much I'm still undecided about.)
Ideas or feedback about the language is very welcome, but in part it's the trickiest thing to "invent". Once the ideas are there, the trickiest thing becomes making them work as elegantly as possible, without greatly growing the size of the program. Then comes smaller parts of how the program does this or that, where various options exist (and some stuff will no doubt be done better in this or that program or library).