Max by Cycling '74

“Max is proprietary so I can only use a tiny fraction of Mojo on Windows unfortunately.”

“thus destroying the incredible name value of HBO”

“If you plug into Max (not Mojo), you get most of the software stack for free”

“complex and not even fully open source”

“Max, which is some closed stuff I'm not interested in”

“releasing an obviously backdoored app like Max”

“backdoored government-approved Max messenger”

“push notifications have stopped working, even if app remains on device, calls no longer going through”

“If you want to schedule tasks in Max accurately with code, you can either use Max, C extensions, or my extension.”

“it's obviously not intended for realtime 'live coding'”

“much like any other good IDE”

“Max goes a lot deeper than wiring some GUI boxes together.”

“when I bothered to learn it was one of the most rewarding uses of time and I find it really quite fun to work in”

“There’s not enough info exposed via the Python or Max APIs (or indeed this one) to sync all the state you’d care about”

“I find the GUI approach so tedious”

“In Max, you have to build everything from scratch, every time.”

“you need to use some Mojo Max library to have fast optimized LLM kernels”

“in that state-enforced Max messenger there so much surveillance you can only praise the authorities and pray in there”

“By contrast, here is the reference for MAX”

“Makh is from some commercial group that does not care about our values.”

“Claude + Max was 1 `max search hubspot --filter` command piped to sort | uniq -c”

“Which is freaking awesome, because I can script all of Max from my vim buffers.”

“HBO's was bad, but it's just the fourth place streaming service in its primary market”

“I still put "Max" as the second worst (after "X").”

“trying to recreate things with Max so I can have a lot more control and really play with it”

“Max is basically a programming language already: message passing, scheduling, state, abstraction, even metaprogramming”

“until someone walked me through how it really worked”

“It's a bit unwielding in its handling of multi-JS-file projects, but it can be done.”

“I appreciate Max/Pure Sound but would rather use my text editor.”

“It's so cool and I've spent a few months randomly through the years building neat plugins for Ableton”

“shockingly capable as an actual programming language too”

“The branding debacle around HBO streaming service was malpractice”

“I find Max is like a better quality version of Netflix. But after a while I have the same problem there too.”

“use the app tied to your passport and gosuslugi to make sure they know who is the genius”

“let authorities publish their spyware (Max messenger)”

“in Russia people are now being forced to use the state-developed MAX”