Language Features
The ChucK programming language is a loosely C-like object-oriented language, with strong static typing.
ChucK is distinguished by the following characteristics:
- Direct support for real-time audio synthesis
- A powerful and simple concurrent programming model
- A unified timing mechanism for multi-rate event and control processing.
- A language syntax that encourages left-to-right syntax and semantics within program statements.
- Precision timing: a strongly timed sample-synchronous timing model.
- Programs are dynamically compiled to ChucK virtual machine bytecode.
- A runtime environment that supports on-the-fly programming.
ChucK standard libraries provide:
- MIDI input and output.
- Real-time control via the Open Sound Control protocol.
- Synthesis Toolkit unit generators.
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