I would say in terms of abstraction, Glicol is more comparable to Chuck, SuperCollider or Csound, yet written in Rust, with some priority towards collaboration,

I would say in terms of abstraction, Glicol is more comparable to Chuck, SuperCollider or Csound, yet written in Rust, with some priority towards collaboration, syntax ergonomics from music interaction perspective, following the trend of Algorave and Web Audio. These languages' audio engine has all been contributing as an audio lib. And for example, Sonic Pi relies on the audio engine of SuperCollider. Thus, Glicol's audio engine will soon be published as a Rust crate: https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol/tree/main/rs/synth https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol/tree/main/rs/synth Still, for the VST, I kinda feel that users may find it easier to use Max4Live or PD-VST (e.g https://github.com/pierreguillot/Camomile https://github.com/pierreguillot/Camomile) rather than a text-based language, since VST is already a graphic interface :)