[fb03]

Audio software has strict buffer/latency demands which usually cannot be guaranteed on interpreted language platforms.

Doing audio synthesis with JS or any other interpreted language really is totally possible and has been done in a more or less serious way in several implementations and webtoys etc. But if you need extremely low latency and guarantees you cannot go that route, sadly.

[mitgraduate]

You can always write native extension in c++/rust/c.

[thecatspaw]

so then why use electron as well if the majority of your code is going to be native anyway?

[fb03]

exactly.

the UI is the minority of the code. the main engine is gonna need to be implemented in some language which has strict guarantees about performance. also, not having a garbage collector that fires in a seemingly random way helps a lot too :)

[purplerabbit]

It's probably a decent way to package your program. And you can use all the glammy JS you want.