[bandrami]

Didn't pd basically borrow spice's circuit layout language for the way it textually stores patches? I know it exists and it's so brittle that nobody ever, ever, edits it, but maybe there's a way to make it a little more resilient and editable?

[plussed_reader]

PD is the non commercial end of Miller Puckettes(and others) contributions to Max/MSP, but with soooo much more.

[bandrami]

This is true, but doesn't really get to the question of how it serializes modular synthesizers

[HelloNurse]

A textual notation for rich and generic graphs can only become more "resilient and editable" by giving nice names to entities and by keeping documents small and hierarchical.

[bandrami]

Not true at all; parsing matters. Json and yaml (and s-expressions and...) are equivalent but yaml having significant whitespace makes it mangleable in a way that the others aren't.