Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
Gordon.

not just arcane but whoever thought those api up must have been trying to find the best way to make things most difficult fo win daw and music app programmers...lol.

what im trying to understand is reaps has only a couple of programmers ?...so how the hey did they go cross platform so fast ? which would seem to suggest it cant be that difficult to go cross platform ?
what i mean is reaps is not just on win but also mac ,linux and the cute pi etc. thats rather impressive.
other daws the same. maybe theres a toolkit ?
ps pi 5 is out ?

best.

om. 🇨🇦. 🇬🇧
It took the Reaper people a few years to do it, so it wasn't that quick. I don't know how many people they have.

FWIW, for my own developments on PCs, I've usually developed on linux with Windows and Mac in mind as I develop, then polish for Windows because that's the big market. I've had a few products used on Macs, but it's been a small market for me. I've not had anyone say my products don't work on a Mac, but I could just have been lucky. Note: My main environment is embedded real-time-ish and I do only a few things for PCs, usually not too complex and usually with a high-ish level language like Python or Tcl, where there's good cross-platform support and decent GUI support. Some of my embedded systems used dozens or hundreds of semi-autonomous modules co-operating over wired and wireless networks almost before the latter existed (my first such wasn't long after ALOHAnet and pick-a-backed over a fire services speech radio network).

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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