Max
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“the Max libraries just let you talk directly to the GPU / CPU / ASIC with Mojo”
“if you use their Max toolchain you can compile Mojo directly to Metal, with performance at the top of the stack”
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“which has a snippets[2] feature much like any other good IDE”
“As it is now, Max offers a very smooth interface to the basic paradigm”
“Max goes a lot deeper than wiring some GUI boxes together”
Caveats and dissent
“releasing an obviously backdoored app like Max”
“in that state-enforced Max messenger there so much surveillance”
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“Another contender to become the European 'Max'”
“in Russia people are now being forced to use the state-developed MAX”
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I've been working on something very similar here https://github.com/max-hq/max”
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Also written as MAX, max. Data: max.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 14
“the Max libraries just let you talk directly to the GPU / CPU / ASIC with Mojo”
“if you use their Max toolchain you can compile Mojo directly to Metal, with performance at the top of the stack”
“releasing an obviously backdoored app like Max”
“My typical workflow is a mix of Max, Csound in Max, Gen and Scheme”
“which has a snippets[2] feature much like any other good IDE”
“As it is now, Max offers a very smooth interface to the basic paradigm”
“Max goes a lot deeper than wiring some GUI boxes together”
“in that state-enforced Max messenger there so much surveillance”
“By contrast, here is the reference for MAX:https://github.com/modular/modular/commit/57728b23befed8f3b44e24d67d41b275bd3e49d4”
“Another contender to become the European 'Max'”
“Which is freaking awesome, because I can script all of Max from my vim buffers.”
“trying to recreate things with Max”
“I appreciate Max/Pure Sound but would rather use my text editor.”
“in Russia people are now being forced to use the state-developed MAX”