[LAD] Something like Processing for audio

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 15:15 -0400, Darren Landrum wrote:
> Paul Davis wrote:
> > Processing has wrapped a language with a lot *less* power than
> > SuperCollider in a front end that is much easier to learn. Its a shame.
> > But it also seems to be way the world works.
> 
> So we would rather have a *more* powerful language wrapped in a front 
> end that is very difficult to learn? We already have that in spades, and 
> it's proven a good way to scare off people with good ideas who are not 
> skilled in coding enough (or patient enough) to get the most basic tasks 
> to work.
> 
> What we need is a nice and powerful back-end that is wrapped in an 
> easy-to-learn front end. The best of both worlds, if it's possible.

Why do we need this?

--p