On 4 Oct 2005, at 03:52, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
David is talking about the Ruby side of GridFlow, which has no equivalent in Jitter.
Recent versions of MAX can handle Java and JavaScript externals straight out of the box.
This is indeed what I'm trying to point out. Javascript is underestimated all the time as a language, and having it in Max is a paradigm shift, IMHO.
Ruby is a step up from that, in that it allows access to true OO (please dont' bash me over the head with PD OOness here), access to the rest of your machine without PD sit-ups, and access to whatever libraries you care to mention (plus writing your own, of course), and direct bindings for C libraries, etc etc etc.
It would be possible to adapt gridflow/bridge/puredata.c so that it also compiles as a MAX external (though I dunno who would do that, as I can't even get someone to work on the OSX port of GF)
Hmm. Must volunteer ;-)
d