> "Would be interested to know how Ableton’s scriptability compares to some other DAWs… I know Tracktion and Bitwig have some degree of JS support, and Reaper h

> "Would be interested to know how Ableton’s scriptability compares to some other DAWs… I know Tracktion and Bitwig have some degree of JS support, and Reaper has its own scripting language. Personally I’d love it Ableton made the Python API etc. a bit more official but I can of course understand why they don’t." There's nothing that really holds a candle to REAPER's scripting API. For interpreted scripts, it supports Lua/Python/Eel (simple C-like language): https://mespotin.uber.space/Ultraschall/Reaper_Api_Documentation.html https://mespotin.uber.space/Ultraschall/Reaper_Api_Documenta... It also has a C/C++ native extension API, and a community Rust API. I have translated the API into C# and D. https://github.com/justinfrankel/reaper-sdk/blob/main/sdk/reaper_plugin_functions.h https://github.com/justinfrankel/reaper-sdk/blob/main/sdk/re... https://github.com/helgoboss/reaper-rs https://github.com/helgoboss/reaper-rs The total number of (stock) API functions is ~1,000. Some core parts of REAPER itself like it's piano roll and media browser are written using it's own plugin API. It supports making audio plugins with GUI's that hot-reload and have a realtime variable + debugger panel using the Eel language (called "JSFX"). Many of the user-created JSFX are better than paid plugins I've used. https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/js/js.php https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/js/js.php The scripting community is very large and active. https://forum.cockos.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3 https://forum.cockos.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3 It has an in-DAW IDE with intellisense. There are multiple community GUI frameworks, including bindings to ImGui, etc. https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=2416501 https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=2416501 https://github.com/cfillion/reaimgui https://github.com/cfillion/reaimgui Really blows your mind. (I am familiar with the docs for Tracktion's JS API, know about Studio One's hush-hush JS scripting, Renoise's Lua scripting, Ardour's scripting, etc.)