ToplapSystems

Languages for For Live Coding. The ones with community links are probably a good place for beginners.

Textual languages

• SuperCollider (community | examples) - C and smalltalk based language, for live coding sound synthesis and musical patterns via JITLib and GraphicsSpace
• ChucK (community) - strongly timed on-the-fly language featuring the Audicle and miniAudicle
• fluxus (community | examples)- Scheme based, centres around game engine, primarily for VJing but has a secret synthesiser
• Impromptu (community | examples)
• redFrik
• packet forth
• musique littérale, built with Quoth, in turn built with Squeak
• noisepattern (part of http://www.pawfal.org/Software/livenoisetools/ )
• Ruby(druby,irb,rjb) | JSyn (Client-Server)
• Hyperyarn
• Flaxus, Toplap flash based application
• SSCLib built with SuperCollider for live slow coding
• Circa
• oflivecoding - Environment for live coding in javascript within the c++ openframeworks toolkit.
• ixi lang - A high level live coding language built on top of SuperCollider. More info on the ixilang page.
• field - A hybrid development environment for making digital art
• context free music language (cfml) - a library/sublanguage for Impromptu
• Extempore (community) - A live-coding environment and which borrows a core foundation from the Impromptu environment
• live-processing - A Processing clone with livecode capabilities.
• Overtone (community) - an open source audio environment designed for collaborative live coding implemented in Clojure.
• Conductive - a library for Haskell
• Music-As-Data - An open source language for live programming music in Clojure
• LuaAV - Real-time audiovisual scripting environment using Lua
• Gibber (community) - JavaScript syntax for live coding audio. Runs in Chrome and Firefox.
• clive - live code JACK audio DSP callbacks in C, with auto git commit / recompile / reload / rerun on the fly, memory state preserved between reloads, colourized diffs and error messsages
• tracker.el - work-in-progress emacs-based tracker-like sequencer using elisp code to generate events
• perl-live - emacs+perl live coding environment
• Cyril - An open source language for visual live coding
• Afterglow - Open source live coding environment for light shows based on Clojure and the Open Lighting Architechture

Graphical / visual / game-based languages

• The Thingee + ThingeeLanguage
• betablocker Gameboy version
• Al-Jazari (refused TOPLAP approval, entering third tribunal at dynamic high court)
• TOPLAPapp:an iPhone/iPod Touch live coding musical puzzle game
• Text - A visual language based on Haskell
• Pure Data - An open-source dataflow programming language for multimedia
• Max/MSP/Jitter - A dataflow programming language for multimedia
• Meemoo - A framework that connects open-source modules, powered by any web technology

Unavailable/difficult to run languages

• Signwave Pure Events
• feedback.pl - Perl based live coding text editor
• run.pl/code.pl