cane (v2)

October 4, 2025 · View on GitHub

The beatings will continue until a banger is made

Cane is a programming language designed for making music.

What Can Cane Do?

Live-coding
Control and communicate with MIDI devices
Generate complex beats with relatively little effort

Introduction & Reference

The EBNF grammar is here.

Requirements

TODO

Build & Run

$ git clone https://github.com/tarpit-collective/cane.git --recursive && cd cane/
$ pre-commit install  # Checks/linting
$ meson setup build/
$ meson compile -C build/
$ meson test -C build/

Rationale

TODO

Design

TODO

Acknowledgements

Gwion
Prop
fennecdjay (for inspiring the project)
qookei

Resources

See the list of resources here

License

This project uses the AGPL-3.0 license. (check LICENSE)

Progress & Discussion

You can join the discord server in order to follow progress and/or contribute to discussion of the project: https://discord.gg/UVYAtpYYD2