[vetinari]

> I am unclear why Jaroslav Kyocera chose to make ALSA single-client, but Apples CoreAudio multi-client driver model is the right way to do digital audio on general-purpose computing devices running multi-tasking OS'es on application processors, in my opinion.

Because ALSA is a different layer in the audio stack than CoreAudio.

ALSA corresponds to MacOS drivers and I/O Kit.

CoreAudio (Audio Toolbox / Audio Unit) corresponds to Pipewire / Pulseaudio.

But on the Mac side everyone is OK with using CoreAudio (with the accompanying set of daemons), while on Linux, for some reason, everyone wants to go as low-level as possible, "just open the device file" and is wondering, why something is missing. Because you skipped that, that's why.