seamstress 2

seamstress is a Lua scripting environment for communicating with music, visuals and data.

seamstress version 2 is pre-alpha software.

discussion

if you'd like to help brainstorm (or develop!) seamstress version 2, please consider joining the conversation here. that link will contain a summary of seamstress 2's current capabilities.

installation

seamstress requires lua and notcurses. on macOS do

brew install lua notcurses pkg-config

on ubuntu (for example) do

sudo apt-get install liblua5.4-dev libnotcurses-core-dev

alternatively to install with homebrew, do

brew tap ryleelyman/seamstress
brew install seamstress

building from source

building seamstress from source requires the master (nightly) version of zig. the easiest way to get zig is to download a binary from here and add it to your PATH. to build seamstress, install the dependencies listed above (as well as pkg-config) and invoke

zig build

NB: this command builds seamstress in Debug mode. you can change this by passing -Doptimize=ReleaseFast or -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe to the build command.

NB: seamstress will be built as zig-out/bin/seamstress; you can add this to your PATH to have it available as seamstress.

acknowledgments

seamstress is inspired by monome norns's matron, which was written by @catfact. norns was initiated by @tehn.