From: Gaspard Bucher <gaspard@...>
Date: 2007-10-22T03:21:29+09:00
Subject: Re: embed Ruby or Lua

2007/10/21, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com>:
> If you're doing midi on a Mac, you should look into some of the Core
> Audio portion of the Cocoa framework.
I use the excellent RtMidi (http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/)
library so the code is portable. In fact it is just some headers for
the vendor specific libraries on Windows, Linux and Mac os x. Audio is
another story into which I might dive someday, but it's not a
priority.

> There are a lot of things done for you. If you build the app with the
> Cocoa framework, you can get scriptability with very little effort.

> If you're already writing in C, the Objective-C stuff should be easy.
> The Cocoa framework is pretty vast, and the audio stuff is too.
I have written some applications in Cocoa and it was nice. Now I
prefer to use open source libraries like agar (http://libagar.org/)
and sdl (www.libsdl.org) instead of the proprietary Cocoa, even if
this library is really good. If I get tired of mac OS X and want to
move to Linux (for speed or whatever good reason), I want to be free
to do so. Rubyk is intended to be a long running project that I will
be using in many future works...