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why i hate juce
2026.05.07

juce is fine. juce works. juce makes money for the people who sell juce licenses.

but here's the thing: audio plugins should be simple. you take sound in,
you do math, you put sound out. that's it. the entire signal chain
of a synthesizer fits in less code than juce's build system.

iplug2 gets it. header-only. minimal. you target vst3, au, lv2, clap
from the same codebase and the framework doesn't get in your way.
it doesn't phone home. it doesn't require a license server.
it just builds.

the best code is code you forget is there.

— mew



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