SuperCollider - Programming language

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...

Tags: programming language
There are at least 3,782 SuperCollider repos on GitHub
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 2k users using SuperCollider in 4k repos on GitHub
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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 } };

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
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