[PD] Javascript on PD

Christof Ressi info at christofressi.com
Thu May 7 19:35:22 CEST 2020


> if you insist on JavaScript, there's also jsusfx (by the same author of
> pdj), which allows you to do audio-processing in a JS-dialect (made
> popular by Reaper) and is well maintained.
Nitpick: JSFX is not related to JavaScript at all, the JS part actually 
stands for Jesusonics. The language itself is called EEL2: 
https://www.cockos.com/EEL2/

> the full power of the LUA
> scripting language (much nicer than js)
Very much agree.

Christof

On 07.05.2020 16:56, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 5/7/20 4:11 PM, Vinicius Cesar wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I was looking for some PD external that load javascripts, like mxj or js on
>> Max.
>> I found pdj, but it seems doesn't work on PD vanilla. Anyone knows some
>> library that do this?
>
> well, according to it's github page, pdj will allow you to load java
> code, not javascript (that's two completely different languages).
> otoh, the webpage also speaks about mxj.
>
> regarding Pd-vanilla: the page (again!) explicitely mentions Pd-0.40,
> which *is* Pd-vanilla.
> however, it's a Pd version that was released 14 years ago. while Pd's
> public API is very stable, chances are that the library uses a private
> API and is thus broken.
>
> also: did you actually manage to compile it? because the code looks
> rather dated and unloved. (and java-1.5...seriously?)
>
> so this looks like a premium case of bitrot to me.
>
>
>
> anyhow, there's pdlua, which gives you the full power of the LUA
> scripting language (much nicer than js)
>
>
> if you insist on JavaScript, there's also jsusfx (by the same author of
> pdj), which allows you to do audio-processing in a JS-dialect (made
> popular by Reaper) and is well maintained.
>
>
>
> fg,ads
> IOhannes
>
>
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