oh hey this is a topic i know of somewhat by chance :) i recently challenged myself to make a daw in the fewest lines of code and i came up with a cli based tracker that essentially does this:
- load track.csv
- each column corresponds to 1.wav, 2.wav, 3.wav, 4.wav etc
- for each line, parse the cell of each column for characteristics and play the sound according to those characteristics (i just did on/off with an x, but you could do volume or duration)
- delay before the next line for BPM
what i ended up was a fun little toy csv-tracker. i was convinced it would be too stupid to be fun beyond the task of making it, but as soon as i saw the 'notes' scrolling line by line.. ooo-weeee what a rush of nostalgia 10/10 would recommend as a fun exercise.
Edit: to actually respond to the article though, because this sounded a bit like storytime, since the author was asking (possibly rhetorically), i think the author -should- stick with Rust. im not saying this due to any fanboy tendencies, 90%+ of what i write is in Go, including the tracker I mentioned above.
what makes me say that Rust is a good fit is because though it is difficult to produce code at a high velocity and with more simplicity in Rust, audio is one of the problem domains where realtime computation is a must, and Rust as compared to Go for example would excel in capable hands due to the way Rust manages resources and leans more toward realtime tasks. We're really splitting hairs here, but be that as it may, i know that it wouldn't take long to be thinking about tweaking the GC if i were doing a 'serious' daw in Go.
evidently i was not the first with this idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFdCM2kHL64