Comment by lioeters

3 years ago

> GLICOL (an acronym for "graph-oriented live coding language") is a computer music language and an audio DSP library written in Rust.

Fascinating. I like that the documentation is based on live code snippets as examples. They sound good too.

A notable feature of the language is that it's "polyglot", where JavaScript can be mixed in, as well as another language called rhai. The use of JS kind of makes sense, since the syntax of Glicol is quite different. But a third language feels unnecessary and over-complicated - maybe there's a good reason for it, in which case I wish the documentation elaborated on why.

All in all, a fun project to explore. The Glicol language syntax reminds me of ChucK, with its "chuck" operator =>, but in Glicol it's >> and seems to work similarly. Would be helpful to have a language reference in the docs.