SuperCollider

SuperCollider is an open source programming language created in 1996.

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SuperCollider is an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. Since then it has been evolving into a system used and further developed by both scientists and artists working with sound. It is an efficient and expressive dynamic programming language providing a framework for acoustic research, algorithmic music, interactive programming and live coding. Read more on Wikipedia...

SuperCollider website
SuperCollider Wikipedia page
SuperCollider docs
There are at least 3,782 SuperCollider repos on GitHub
file extensions for SuperCollider include sc and scd
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 2k users using SuperCollider in 4k repos on GitHub
Explore SuperCollider snippets on Rosetta Code
SuperCollider on HOPL
SuperCollider appears in the TIOBE Index
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for SuperCollider
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for SuperCollider
See also: (14 related languages)FreeBSD, Linux, Smalltalk, C, Lisp, Pure Data, Scheme, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Android, iOS, Emacs, Vim

Example from hello-world:

"Hello World".postln;

Example from the Hello World Collection:

// Hello World in SuperCollider

"Hello, world!".postln;

Example from Linguist:

WarpPreset {
	*new {|path|
		if(path.notNil) {
			^Object.readArchive(path);
		};

		^super.new.init();
	}

	init {

	}

	save {
		Dialog.savePanel({|path|
			this.writeArchive(path);
		});
	}
}

Example from Wikipedia:

// Factorial function
f = { |x| if(x == 0) { 1 } { f.(x-1) * x } };

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Integers	✓		// [0-9]+
Floats	✓		// [0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9]+([eE][0-9]+)?[fd]?
Hexadecimals	✓		// 0x[0-9a-fA-F]+
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	postln
Comments	✓		// A comment
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

SuperCollider - Programming language

Language features