As part of my work to port the ChucK music programming language to JavaScript, via the Emscripten C++ to JavaScript compiler, I’ve implemented a Gradle build script for it (instead of the original Makefile). Aside from my working for Gradle, I think it’s a great choice for this kind of polyglot project, where both native and JavaScript targets are built. ChucK is also highly cross platform (i.e. Linux, OS X, Windows), which makes writing a general build script for it demanding. Gradle is a huge help here, especially after its recently gaining support for C and C++.

Last Thursday (the 5th of February) I gave a talk on my project ChucKJS at the Berlin NodeJS meetup. It turned out to be a very positive experience, which is especially great since it was the first time I’ve given a talk at a meetup or indeed outside of internal company gatherings. Based on the number of questions I received, there appeared to be a great deal of interest in Web Audio and Emscripten in the development community. I was even a bit surprised by the amount of questions I received after, but I’ll take this as a sign that at least my talk wasn’t boring ;) I used a Prezi throughout the talk, which I’ve shared here.