[LAD] Open Source to be or not to be?

[Stéphane Letz]

Le 1 juil. 2014 à 05:56, hermann meyer <brummer- at web.de> a écrit :

> Am 01.07.2014 00:27, schrieb David Robillard:
>> On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 21:58 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:13:06PM +0200, Stéphane Letz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Fons, you know what?  the Faust zita-rev1 version  (still old
>>>> one of course..) now even runs in the web, automagically compiled
>>>> in asm.js  (http://asmjs.org) using latest faust2 git version
>>>> and running at acceptable speed in recent browsers like Firefox
>>>> or Chrome (still some issues here…) :
>>> And what's the point of running a concert hall reverb in a web
>>> browser ? Providing a new 'business model' for audio engineering ?
>>> With some advertising around it and Google reaping the benifits
>>> and diverting them to some low tax island inhabitated by the
>>> stinking rich and their imported household slaves ? If that is
>>> the future of open source software, I'll step out. Or is it some
>>> form of masturbation for IT engineers who have nothing better to
>>> do ? Or are they too stupid to grok what's going on ?
>> ++
>> 
>> UIs are one thing (not without their own problems, but running remotely
>> on pretty much anything is at least useful), but all this DSP in the
>> browser (or Javascript, period) nonsense is just that.  It's literally
>> the least appropriate thing to be doing on that platform I can think of.
>> 
>> One of the fun things you can do with compilers (like Faust) is output
>> pretty much anything as your "machine code".  What's fun, however, is
>> not always sane...
>> 
>> Native code aversion is a serious problem in the entire computing world,
>> which continues to snowball because all the language/etc innovation gets
>> directed at VMs for no particularly good reason (and/or you get
>> half-baked amateurish garbage like Javascript/PHP from people who have
>> no business inventing programming languages in the first place).  I
>> don't need a bloody virtual machine, I've got a real one, thanks.
>> 
>> Javscript doesn't even have real numeric types or sane lexical scoping.
>> The entire computing world is supposed to move to this joke, even for
>> high performance and real-time tasks?  Give me a break.
>> 
>> </rant>
>> 
> 
> One way I could imagine to use this:
> If you put "this" html site as example on your project site, so "users" could just test it, without download or install.
> If they like it, they could download it for "real" work.
> 
> 

Or just drop the "code" link that is available in the upper part of he HTML page in the export tool of FaustLive. In a matter of minutes you can generate the *native* optimized tool you may want as a plug-in or standalone application. This is a new way to promote DSP code reuse we think interesting. 

Stéphane