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by julesrms 2604 days ago
oh.. I should also mention that we don't expect it to replace all the other audio systems and languages that are already established and have large user-bases. (At least not overnight ;) )

..but we are attempting to do something that nobody else is, which is to provide a platform they can use as a target.

If we can do the hard work and graft of turning this into a super-portable runtime that can target whatever low-latency hardware the user has (and create a market for new audio accelerators that don't yet exist), then we expect it to be attractive for all those existing frameworks to use SOUL (or our IR) as the thing they emit, rather than using LLVM's JIT or WASM or just interpreters as they do now.