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Is this repo dead? #297

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Venj-ADL opened this issue Apr 23, 2024 · 1 comment
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Is this repo dead? #297

Venj-ADL opened this issue Apr 23, 2024 · 1 comment

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@Venj-ADL
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Venj-ADL commented Apr 23, 2024

Seems to be a long time since any dev work happened here.
Is this project dead?
Just asking so I know whether to allocate time/energy into learning the system in case it will never be updated again.
I understand maintaining software is not easy and I am am certainly not expecting anything, just more curious.
I saw Orca when it was first released and thought it was super interesting but didn't have the time to invest in it back then. Checking in again and it seems to be abandoned (which is fine, but perhaps mark if so it that is the case :) ).
Cheers for all your work so far.

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neauoire commented Apr 23, 2024

It's still very much alive. The javascript implementation is complete, so I don't need to update it, the other implementations(uxn, cli, etc..) still change from time to time as people find bugs, but only ever so rarely.

The Orca specification is frozen, the next time this repo will be modified is when the webmidi API changes. This repo is a base that can be extended with new special operators, but I do not add new special operators upstream at this point.

Learning how to use Orca is learning a musical language more than learning how to use a specific program, the 26 operator base can be re-implemented would this repository and binaries vanish, I highly recommend trying to make your own implementation if that's your sort of thing.

While the javascript implementation is sitting on a more fragile foundation(webmidi, electron, v8), the Uxn and terminal implementations are likely to survive for the foreseeable future and can be relied on.

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