Le 1 juil. 2014 à 12:37, Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]> a écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 06:27:05PM -0400, David Robillard wrote: > >> 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. > > Couldnt agree more. It's all just creating extra layers on the onion, > in the illusory expectation that those will be more 'standard' than > the ones below. Commercial forces will make sure that such interfaces > will diverge anyway. And more often than not they just exist to ensure > some intermediate parasites can profit from them. > > It sometimes makes me think of they way tomatos are being distributed > and sold here in Italy. They will travel up and down the entire country > (either physically or just virtually) a number of times before ending > up in the shops. Both the producers and the consumers are ripped off > by middlemen taking their profit on redundant steps. > > Ciao, > > -- > FA This is exactly one aspect Faust is trying to address from day one… : having one high level DSP specification that the compiler can easily deploy on a wide variety of platforms: from OWL pedal, (http://hoxtonowl.com/2014/04/owl-and-faust/), regular OS, up to easily deployable Web versions, that can possibly directly be used, or a least give access to the original code for easy re-deployement. Why refuse that? Stéphane _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
