Project Summary
SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
SuperCollider was written by James McCartney over a period of many years, and is now an open source project maintained and developed by various people. It is used by musicians, scientists, and artists working with sound.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 292 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in September, 2002
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
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