Coalton for music or audio programming?

[iainctduncan]

Hi, I am curious to hear if anyone is (or knows of others) using Coalton for music and audio related work. I'm the author of Scheme for Max, which puts s7 Scheme in Max, and s7 (from CCRMA) is, like Coalton, a Lisp 1 with elements of Scheme and CL. Being able to use something similar with and advanced type system could be great for use cases where the minimalism of s7 falls short. Also, we do FFT work a lot in MIR (music information retrieval) so the demo video on FFTs piqued my interest.

One specific question I have (excuse if ignorant) is whether there exists in SBCL an option for a low-pause time incremental garbage collector that works well enough for music work. Roger Danenberg put one in his Serpent project and I would love to be able work in a lisp one with pause time guarantees. But maybe I'm misunderstanding things and Coalton only makes sense if compiling binaries?

Euterpea was an interesting composition package in Haskell. I wonder if some of it's ideas could be brought to Coalton to good effect.

Thanks, I'll be watching this space!