utoecat/lualadspa

Write ladspa plugins on lua

about

Hi, it's me, UtoECat :)
I love system programming, interpreters and game development. I'm trying to speak english... but... as you can see... 💀

languages i use

I'm Very good at C99-C11, OK at C++, insanely good at Lua, very bad at python, can write SQL for sqlite3 with manuals in chrome tab. Could write javascript, but don't really want to.

libraries/frameworks I use(d) (with small personal review)

• Databases :
  • Sqlite3. I love it so much. Good as database for generic cases, but can be tweaked with pragmas for specific ones.
• Game development:
  • Raylib. Used it very deeply. Good for prototyping and simple games, but the lack of multithreading support makes it difficult to scale in the future...
  • SDL2. Good as SDL, but needs a lot of work to get things started. (so only used it a couple of times on a small scale)
  • Love2D. In simple terms - SDL2, but optionally simple. It's easy to start doing things, potentially scalable, but lacking api for C, C++. Love it.
• Audio :
  • SDL_Mixer. Not the best thing in the universe.
  • miniaudio - the best thing in the universe for what it does, change my mind.
  • Jack(Jack 2) - good. Good API for clients, good docs, good project.
  • LADSPA - simple to get started, has potencial problems as plugin API(lack of MIDI, etc.)... But... Good.
  • rayaudio. Uses miniaudio, but makes it much worse. Okay for simple background soumd in game, simple effects, but nothing more. Why i'm even included it here?
• STB :
  • stb_image. Good.
  • stb_vorbis (was not easy, but thanks god i found miniaudio)
  • stb_XXX - very likely to be good.
• Unit testing and automatic testing
  • Doctest link. Just the best. (I tried using catch at first, and was frustrated by catch's slow compilation speed and bloat.)
  • Github Actions. I'am still don't really understand what i'm doing in it, but... It just works...
• Sanitizers, checksrs
  • Adress sanitizer, Leak suitizer, UB Sanitizer - your best friends in C and C++. Can be ever better to debug your custom allocators :)
• Embeddable interpreters
  • Luajit, Lua 5.1-5.4, Luau. Good.
• OPENGL
  • Legacy or 1.0, with old and warm in memories but horrible in perfomance glBegin() glEnd()...
  • Fancy 3.0 with horribly picky VAO's, VBO's, EBO's... But there is no any other better way around.
  • Galogen. Github repo archived. Rest in peace, kinda? huh?
  • Other opengl loaders whose names confuse me. Because they are so similar, what the hell?
• Network
  • Enet (new and fancy packed version). Good.
  • Asyncio/http(s) requests. Only using it, not implementing... thank god... 💀

tools i use(d)

• Debugging
  • x86dbg. Don't ask.
  • GDB. I can sit and think in it for a while, read help and do simple things, but nothing more. I can't live in debugger without GUI, i'm lost person 💀
• Asan, leak sanitizer, leakcheck, cppcheck, -fanalyze...
• Gnu Make. Not bad.
• CMake. I have bad relationships with it at this moment, but it should be good.... Hopefully...
• Cygwin. Wine.
• c/c++ compilers GCC, CLANG, MINGW.
• VIM. :e review.txt\nihello, this is my vim review\ni love it.ESCyy333p:wq.

linux stuff

DE: sway, xfce, Lxde. Terminal : kitty. Distro : Manjaro, Aritx. Hate zsh and swap, love bash and zram. Hate systemd but forced to use it.

lualadspa's Issues

rare crashes on Carla plugin host

but since 0.3 update, it crashed too fast...
While audacity does not worked on previous versions and now working, situation with default plugin host is strange...

I need to implement a custom plugin hoster for this, i guess, to test this plugin more heavily, and add some unit tests too.