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by odiroot 1429 days ago
There's one ironic thing with JUCE. Everything written with it is by design cross-platform.

Despite that synth companies refuse to ship Linux versions. And JUCE plugins/apps work quite badly under Wine

Looking at you MODAL Electronics!

2 comments

Sadly it's not really that simple (speaking as someone who has shipped JUCE apps on iOS and Android) – sure, the code might compile on every platform, but in reality there are still a bunch of other factors that can make stuff not work, or perform badly, or complicated to test, or whatever. I suspect really it's that companies are not willing to do the testing or support required to say they support Linux.
There's major Linux progress and I'd expect more to come soon. JUCE 7 introduced LV2 and I think more developers will release to Linux sooner than later.
LV2 is a multiplatform plugin format