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this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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Yes. For a DAW, I would avoid languages with garbage collection.
The most important speed to optimize is developer speed. Python is by that measure one of the fastest languages.
CPU speed is negligible
In this case we're talking about a soft real-time application where milliseconds matter. If you use Python for this, your developer speed will suffer because you're using most of your time to fight garbage collection pauses, among other things.
Kivy is a platform frequently used for video games. It has good hardware acceleration. It would work fine for this purpose.
Again, the CPU time differences are negligible. They're less than milliseconds.
Writing real-time audio processing code in Python won't be performant, though. And that's the part that matters for a DAW.