It would've been a worse decision to compete against C74-MAX directly,
-jMax actually had to because IRCAM used Max/MSP for most of their concerts, with the exceptions of some Boulez and Manoury pieces. It was deemed too unreliable.
harder to technically catch up with than Pd, and also is backed with a bigger company than a team of 2-4 people at IRCAM.
-I don't know whether jMax was technologically more or less advance. But it might have played a role. In the end not many people were using it and combined with all kinds of transition problems from version 2 to 4, it was killed off.
AvS
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