I also have some tips for keeping the number sliders responsive even if the derived views take a while to update if you’re interested.

I would love to hear about experience using membrane. I know the documentation needs a rework, but I’m still actively working towards 1.0 and would love to collect any feedback or ideas.

It has a tree sitter grammar which should be much easier to port than some rust code, github.com/treeman/tree...

Each ref type provides a mechanism to transition from one immutable value to another. The reason you have multiple options is that each mechanism makes different tradeoffs, but most programs just use 1-2 atoms which is sufficient for most programs.

While most code in clojure has very little state, most programs need to have some state which is where the managed references come in (ie. atoms, refs, agents, and volatile!). Most libraries have 0 references (see blog.phronemophobic.com/dewey-sql.ht...). Many large programs have just one reference!

I wrote a wrapper for whisper.cpp at github.com/phronmophobi.... It doesn't currently support streaming, but it wouldn't be that hard to add.

The Java sound APIs aren't so bad for recording audio which can reduce dependencies. There's a clojure example in the whisper.clj repo.

I had previously looked into what it would take to wrap pytorch's c++ engine. The problem is that a lot of code that makes pytorch useful is in python, even if the c++ portion of the code does a lot of work too.

github.com/SovereignSho... is interesting, but still needs a little work to make it easier to use. I've also used squiggle+openSCAD a few times with success, github.com/herichovadaj.... With a little work, meshes can be rendered on the JVM with webgpu.