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> the SDK seems way larger than I had imagined, but that is normal for (software) things, I guess. "This API also enables the scheduling of tasks on the main thread from any other thread." was not easy to unpack nor see the use of in what was (to me) an audio-generation-centered API

VST plugins almost all have a GUI, thus the VST SDK has to support an entire cross-platform UI framework... This threading functionality is mostly about shipping input events/rendering updates back and forth to the main (UI) thread



There is no single UI framework in VST. The plugin API only has interfaces for creating/destroying/resizing a GUI window. You are not required to use VSTGUI.


For context, the variation in UI between VSTs is pretty large and tend to be very creative, much like UI in games.


For better or worse, frequently worse

Like traveling back in time before UX was a word


Correct, it just hands you native handles. What you do with them is up to you.

JUCE is a popular UI framework (at least it was 10 years ago). But I've seen people put electron apps somehow into a VST.


Oh man, this is really starting to look like a plague.

And yet here we are discussing the value of using C++ vs other languages for real time audio processing.




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