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Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure | Aug 2023
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The lead developer seems to have move on to https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi
Ask HN: Why does validating a user require 14000 files? | Aug 2021
This insanity is far more pervasive and has infected software distribution as well.

A couple of years back I installed a copy of Sonic Pi[1] on my machine and was horrified to see that the distribution basically dumped tens of thousands of extremely tiny Ruby files on the hard disk. Ever tried copying hundreds of thousands of sub 1 KB files from one disk to another and noticed the file system crying under the load?

Game developers solved this problem decades ago.[2][3] I don't know why other developers continue to be so backward in their thinking when distributing their software. You don't have to do anything special. Just use SQLite as a VFS and end the insanity.[4]

[1] https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi

[2] https://quakewiki.org/wiki/.pak

[3] https://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Community_hints,_tips_and_tutori...

[4] https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

Ask HN: How to get started with audio programming? | May 2021
Do look at SonicPi [0][1].

[0] https://sonic-pi.net/ [1] https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi

Show HN: Computer Music with Python | Aug 2020
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OP surely already knows this, but for everyone else in this thread - for live music coding, got to mention Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net and https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi) which is absolutely amazing at what it does; it's Ruby and not Python, but some ideas are quite brilliant.