JUCE
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Jan 11, 2026first mention
Oct 3, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I used JUCE back in college for a POC synthesizer and I remember it being the absolute best for plugin development.”
used it in collegeon “Pi 1.0”
“i have been using JUCE for decades and it's been very reliable and stable with a well maintained forum”
built Audionauton “Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform m…”
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“JUCE (I love and use many audio plugins created with it)”
audio plugin user
Caveats and dissent
“the recent release of JUCE (JUCE8) just broke compatibility with wine and seem to be sabotaging wine-based usage completely”
new to audio industryon “I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too”
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Pi 1.0 1 mention
- Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor 1 mention
- item 48883305 1 mention
- Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI 1 mention
- Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold 1 mention
- I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too 1 mention
Data: juce.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I used JUCE back in college for a POC synthesizer and I remember it being the absolute best for plugin development.”
“i have been using JUCE for decades and it's been very reliable and stable with a well maintained forum”
“JUCE (I love and use many audio plugins created with it)”
“JUCE (most of the cross-platform commercial Windows/Mac/Linux audio effects I've bought are made in JUCE)”
“Use JUCE as much as you like”
“the recent release of JUCE (JUCE8) just broke compatibility with wine and seem to be sabotaging wine-based usage completely”