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Well, except WebAudio. That standard omits some essential low level audio primitives while featuring an incomplete scatter of high level APIs.

• SwellJoe 9y ago
  Agreed. I've only given it a cursory glance, but I've read several people bemoaning how awful it is. And, I think it's an example of what happens when APIs are built by folks who aren't actually building things with them. Audio always seems to get screwed up by engineers, sometimes for years. Linux had absolutely shitty audio up until...like yesterday. It's a feedback loop, I think. Almost nobody uses the web for serious audio because the web sucks for serious audio, and thus almost nobody who uses the web for serious audio is working on the standards for web audio. I admire anyone who can make the web platform work at all for anything audio related.
  • mwcampbell 9y ago
    > Linux had absolutely shitty audio up until...like yesterday. Is that just hyperbole, or has there been a recent (within the past 6 months) development that has made Linux audio better?
    • SwellJoe 9y ago
      Hyperbole. It really was fixed a couple years ago, maybe as much as three or four, if you were running a cutting-edge distribution like Fedora. But, it was entirely fair to say Linux absolutely sucked at audio for decades.