Hello all, I can't say much about the development part itself, but in my experience I've noticed that ChucK is still being used widely at an academic level. I understand it's being used in a few universities that include creative technology programs and computer orchestra courses in their curriculums, including CalArts, Stanford, and VUW (New Zealand). Like Mario mentioned, it is a core part of a few Kadenze courses; I've been involved as a producer/teaching assistant in a couple of them and it seems like it's a popular language among students who are just learning how to code, and musicians who would like to develop more advanced projects. Also, ChucK Racks popped up a couple of months ago, which was pretty exciting. So yeah, I think there's quite a bit going on, but it certainly would be nice to have a more active community (I'm hoping to contribute, and hopefully I'll get to it before too long).
About the *static strings* issue, I think they're kind of in a shady spot. Like Gonzalo mentioned, you can't have static non-primitives in your code, but there is a workaround to this by declaring objects as a reference and then initializing them outside of the class. However, if you try to do this with strings, it will tell you that they're a primitive type and it throws an error. The best hack I've found for this is through arrays (even if the size of the array is 1 in many cases). Here's an example: public class Container { static string staticString[]; public static void init() { new string[1] @=> staticString; "Hello World" @=> staticString[0]; } public static void print(){ <<< staticString[0] >>>; } } Container.init(); Container.print(); You don't really need an init() function, and you can initialize the array on the actual script, but I usually end up with much larger classes, which is why I like to keep things clean. Hope this helps! Best, JP *JP Yepez* New Media Artist - Musician - Researcher Website: http://www.jpyepez.com/ Email: jpyepez...@gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------- <https://www.instagram.com/jpyepez/> <https://twitter.com/jpyepezmusic> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-yepez-063928123/> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 12:19 AM, mario buoninfante < mario.buoninfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to ask the same question about the development status. > > the only thing I can say is that also if the development seems to be a bit > stuck, on the other side I noticed that they're pushing on the educational > side (see Kadenze courses), and if you look at the github repository, > there's been some update in the last 2 years. > > but as you guys said, it's important to know what's the plan ;) > > it's a couple of years I'm really diving into ChucK and I strongly believe > that is a good programming language which opens up a lot of possibilities > that other languages don't. > > but at the same time I feel like it's been a bit abandoned (maybe that's a > huge word, let's say put aside ;) ) and of course using a "tool" which has > an "uncertain future" it's not the best thing. > > I wish I was able to offer my contribution to the development, but > unfortunately I'm not really into C/C++, I'm more a "scripting language > guy" :) > > btw, it would be nice to hear what developers and/or other users have to > say about it. > > > cheers, > > Mario > > > > On 12/01/18 22:14, Gonzalo wrote: > >> Yes, I'm wondering the same thing. There's a Facebook group ( >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/1593843507578422/) but it doesn't look >> super active either. >> >> As far as static strings: I'm pretty sure you just can't have static >> non-primitives. What are you trying to achieve? >> >> Cheers, >> Gonzalo >> >> >> On 13.01.18 00:20, Atte wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I've been away for a long time and surprised that activity seems to have >>> slowed down a lot, both on the development of new releases chuck and the >>> life of this list. Am I looking at the wrong places? What's the status of >>> chuck development now and in the future? >>> >>> I really like chuck (mostly the timing and sporking including >>> Machine.add()), should I look other places for a language that will privide >>> a more secure future? I'm on linux and looked at Csound, Super Collider and >>> PD, each has it's challenges in how I work (realtime generative and >>> algorithmic MIDI), python seems to have realtime problems (garbage >>> collection at random points). Any idea what former chuck users have >>> switched to now? >>> >>> Back to chuck! A problem that I never been able to solve, static strings: >>> >>> public class A { >>> "b" @=> static string B; >>> >>> public static void C(){ >>> <<<B>>>; >>> } >>> } >>> >>> That throws an error, how would I go about what I'm trying to do? >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > chuck-users mailing list > chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu > https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users >
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