Why You Shouldn’t Write a DAW - David Rowland - ADC23
Why the open web links it
Explores the challenges and complexities of building a DAW, questioning why so few exist despite the abundance of audio plugins.
Linked by 5 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ycombinator.com, native-instruments.com, audiopluginlab.com, catnapgames.com, greatlittle.software.