Re: [Guidolib-devel] Guido.js: A JavaScript Port of Guido

[Alexander D. <al...@mu...>]

Hi Dominique,


> Did you also considered PNaCl :
> http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/05/pnacl-google-chrome-llvm
>
> http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/introduction-to-portable-native-client
> This approach could save you a lot of effort, also with the benefit of
> compiled and optimized LLVM code.
> The drawback is that it is restricted to Google Chrome but I think the
> future (or at least a great part of it) relies on technologies like LLVM.
>

I did not try PNaCl, looks like an interesting approach! I might experiment
with this for a little bit.

If I do, I'll be sure to report back here with what I find. Or if anyone
else has already tried this, I'd love to hear what your results were like.


> In addition, rewriting the engine in javascript is a kind of fork, in the
> sense that further improvements of the code, whatever side it is, won’t
> benefit to the other implementation. That’s currently my main concern for
> the deployment of Guido (and of INScore too) on the web.
>

Hmm. I think that's a very reasonable concern, one that I hadn't really
considered.

On one hand, I don't want to dilute development efforts. Or make more work
by having to re-implement updates separately in both languages.

But on the other hand, a fork could let us experiment with different
approaches. And it could let us tap in to the large pool of
javascript/node.js developers.

I'm not yet sure how these balance out.

I think I will continue to work on the javascript port, as long as it
doesn't detract from the principal Guido effort.

If you find that the fork every does become a problem, please do let me
know. I don't want to do anything that works against the great projects
that you all are doing.


> ps: concerning the web service, it is running on
> http://guidoservice.grame.fr (in case you want to experiment)
> It differs from the NoteServer since all the library API is available and
> thus, one could potentially build real applications over the web.
> The guido station is not very stable and could be temporarily unavailable
> because it has recently suffered of piracy.
> The service documentation is available at http://guido.grame.fr/
>
>
Cool! I'd love to try this out, thanks for sharing it with me! This could
be very helpful for making some initial lessons at Musikata.

One of the reasons I got into Guido was to generate both audio and visual
outputs from the same encoding. I think this service could be a nice way to
experiment with that.

-Alex