Not sure if the comments were directed at me, since people may know I've spent a lot of time on the FV-1, which doesn't support C/C++. I hate programming that thing's DSP assembler even more than C/C++, but for what it is, especially considering it first came out almost 15 years ago, it's pretty compact and elegant and totally non-portable.
My preference is either for a graphical tool or something like Faust, where you are not so lost in the weeds of buffer pointers and UI threads etc. Of course with those you are at the mercy of whatever functions the library supports, but I'd bet that most people getting started will find that relatively satisfactory. By the time you get to where you want to do something really innovative, go ahead and do it in C/C++ then add it to the library of a higher level language or tool so you never have to do it again.
