[LAU] How to get started writing a JACK app? (also what distro for BeagleBone)

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:54:43PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> > It is quite common (unfortunately in my view these days) to
> > implement things as JACK clients (i.e. standalone programs) on Linux,
> > rather than as plugins (though this changing).
>
> And I'm probably one of the major culprits.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, that's not going to change. For me a
> Jack app is just a 'system plugin'. There is simply no plugin
> host that offers the same features and flexibility by far - not
> even Ardour.
>
> Think about what a plugin host is doing. It just offers
> alternative interfaces to sound, MIDI, networking, GUIs,
> etc. etc. It just copies services that are already provided
> by the system. As a way to 'hide' the system and make things
> cross-platform that makes sense. In any other way it doesn't.
>

​just for the record, i agree with all of this.​
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