Time for a new #introduction!
I am a part-time cat lady to three strays who effectively manipulate me with affection for food and skritches. When I'm not drowning in existential dread, I'm learning #Lua, playing with handheld #Retro #emulators and #Pico8, digging through crates of #music (physical and digital), watching #documentaries, or sleeping. I appreciate #outsiderart, #outsidermusic and #badcinema. I have a non-problematic love for #Balatro.
The @ardour #Lua scripting workshop at #LAC25 #INSA #Lyon has just started. And I am curious to learn how to extend the functionalities of this great free and #OpenSource #DAW in a programmatically way in #realtime.
As @lualang is #CrossPlatform like #Ardour is, you can draft your script on a Windows machine at work and refine it on your #Linux computer later at home, for example.
Let's see how we can automate tasks in Ardour sessions, which otherwise would require another person operating #plugin parameters, session properties, #routing, etc. interactively.
Ok, dispatch is in, some quick benchmarks, using a script that does nothing but return Outcome::NotForUs:
So #Roto wins over #Lua by a sizeable margin here, even with luau-jit (which, iirc, is supposed to be the fastest).
However, #Lua is fast enough. I'm willing to trade some performance for user convenience, and Lua is at a spot where the performance drop, while noticable, is within acceptable limits, and is offset by the convenience of the language.
In a number of ways, #Lua is going to be a better fit than #Roto: it's a far better known language, and a whole bunch of things are easier to do in Lua.
Do I regret going with #Roto first? Absolutely not. I like Roto's syntax better, and prefer its minimalism over Lua. From what I remember about my prior benchmarks, Roto is also significantly faster. But I'll do some side-by-side comparisons once the Lua support is in a better place, and once I can actually choose which one to use.
Right now I just made a struct that implements the same functions as MeansOfProduction, and replaced Roto with Lua. That is obviously not how it will work down the road.
Last night I started to wonder: what if I embedded #Lua in #iocaine?
So today I'm going to do that. A first, exploratory hack is compiling now, so I can benchmark it. It doesn't load any external files yet, it's a hardcoded return false.
Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua (PDF viewer) https://lobste.rs/s/4t1p6g #lua
https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/sblp/article/view/30252/30059
I'm thinking of developing a new course or workshop in the fall.. would any of these interest you?
Okay, my code might be genuinely cursed. I had a function I wrote but wasn't using anymore, but removing it caused the project to lag immensely. I simplified it to a single loop that calls a math function. Not looping or looping fewer times drops the FPS from 120 to 30. What's going on? #love2d #lua
Xmake v3.0 released, Improve c++ modules and jobgraph support https://lobste.rs/s/fefns1 #c #c++ #lua #programming #release
https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Kartik Agaram: Freewheeling Apps
https://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps
(Check out the talk & transcript.)
Hello Fediverse. So I'm looking for a #remote #opensource job or project in European timezones.
I am not good in writing CVs. So I'm just listing the projects I have done:
#Rust(See https://codeberg.org/farooqkz/wakegp, https://github.com/deltachat-bots/deltachat-loginbot and https://github.com/deltachat/message-parser) #GeneticProgramming #Cranelift
#Typescript #Javascript #ReactJS #InfernoJS. I used to work on https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop and https://codeberg.org/chooj/chooj
#Lua #Luanti. I contribute to CTF game. I also play it extensively!
I'm a #Linux user. I have good experience using CLI, and I have basic shell scripting skills. I also have a little experience with #FreeBSD
I am also good at reading academic papers, standards(like RFCs) and manpages.
I am up for working on #FOSS projects as freelancer or part time contracts.
Boosts appreciated :)
PS: I am also familiar with #CommonLisp. But I highly doubt if I can find a #Lisp job anywhere!
after 25+ years of class-based OOP i'm learning to think in terms of prototype-based OOP. it's a subtle change, and wow does it ever loosen up my thought processes
instead of thinking top-down (and bottom up) about my game architecture and worrying about rational hierarchies, i'm learning how to think in terms of pure functionality and cloning and then extending objects.
it's a relief learning something new. i'm no longer forcing lua to be not-lua.
all of this is thanks to the smalltalk-80 reference book i picked up a few months ago, along with a great article on the history of smalltalk by alan kay
libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events https://lobste.rs/s/vo1ue5 #linux #lua
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-Lua-Plugin-System
｢ Teal is a statically-typed dialect of Lua. It extends Lua with type annotations, allowing you to specify arrays, maps and records, as well as interfaces, union types and generics.
It aims to fill a niche similar to that of TypeScript in the JavaScript world ｣
