[LAD] prototyping callback based architecture in python?

[Iain Duncan]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Emanuel Rumpf <xbran at web.de> wrote:

> 2011/11/4 Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists at gmail.com>:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Kjetil Matheussen
> >> > Are you sure you need to use Python? There are other high level
> >> > languages
> >> > letting you do this, which are much faster than Python.
> >> > LuaAV for Lua is the most obvious since Lua is the same
> >> > type of language as Python. Other alternatives I know of are Faust,
> >> > Kronos (if it's available now) and Snd-RT.
> >> > (Of those last three, you should look at Faust first.)
> >> >
> >
> >
> > Well, I code in Python for a living, so as far as maximizing developer
> time
> > it makes sense! And there are a lot of nice libraries out there for doing
> > things in Python ( gui, midi, osc interfaces, etc )
> >
>
> While I can understand your desire to code in Pyhton,
> what you are trying to accomplish is not simple with Pyhton
> (if possible at all), not even with C.
> All your questions are just the beginning of a very huge problem ;)
> I presume: by trying to use Python for this, dev-time will grow
> exponentially ...
> Do you have any experience in connecting python to C, "wrapping" ?
>
> I would advice (if asked ;) to skip
> Python for the real-time part.
> Use any language that is capable.
>
> (Apparently, most "Python Modules" are actually Wrapper-Classes for C
> - would you call that a capable language ? ;)
>
> You could still write the GUI in Python,
> choosing any applicable protocol (OSC, D-Bus, ...) l in order to
> connect to the non-rt part of the engine.
>

Thanks for the opinion Emmanual, very helpful. Yeah, it may be better to
just start off in C++ for the engine side and bite the bullet there.

iain
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