There's a new release of Logic for Programmers! This one, version 0.15, is the first true release candidate. There's a couple of minor touch-ups I need to do but all content is in and copy edited and proofread. Unless something absolutely major comes up, the next release will be 1.0 and available in print. Full release notes here.

(I'm also testing if a smaller low margin PDF is better for phones and computers. The printed book is going to have much larger proper margins. Let me know what you think about this experiment!)

Anyway I hurt my wrist and can't write a whole newsletter, so I'll just do a couple of recommendations. My friend Richard Whaling invited me to the inaugural livecode.chicago meetup, which was pretty cool! Among other things, people demoed two languages for livecoding music:

• Strudel is an extensive javascript DSL that seems relatively friendly to get into
• CLAVIER-36 is a ground-up special purpose language where the program is a 2D grid

It all kinda makes me wish I knew the basics of music because it seems like it'd be a lot of fun to compare and contrast all of the various approaches to livecoding languages. Check em out if that's at all your thing!

(For completeness, Strudel is a port of the Haskell TidalCycles and C36 was inspired by Orca)