I still use max every day. I should take on Lua and Supercollider, but procrastinate a lot because it’s frustrating to struggle with tasks that I’m already good at.
Ditto for pd. I seriously need to dive into that, and the only thing stopping me is that I don’t want to.
Anyway… I don’t really see the appeal of development megathreads, myself. I suppose the natural selection aspect of ideas getting lost as they aren’t latched onto makes for a leaner community, but I always liked the more “forum as wiki” approach of just treating each post like an ongoing article.
(I think the informal “one thread for every app” paradigm on the old forums kept a lot of apps alive that would otherwise have gone abandoned. Or at least, abandoned much faster.)
I say this mostly out of ignorance, however. As someone who’s never gotten up to speed with git, or gist, I’m sitting in the centralized discussion, unaware that those focused explorations of smaller ideas are even happening, somewhere.
(Assuming they are. I’ve pieced together that they probably are, and that this is where I’ve fallen short in my ability to join them, but that’s still sort of an abstract hypothesis. Y’know?)
Anyway, that’s on me. There’s just more of an onboarding process to development here than there used to be, is really my point.
*shrug"
