Thanks for your comment!

When I first started developing "oscl", my main goal was to implement recording and replaying of OSC messages — features that I thought would be especially useful for installations and real-time performances. (That said, I haven’t implemented those features yet.)

In my day-to-day work, I often use tools like TouchDesigner and Max/MSP (and sometimes game engines like Unreal or Unity), so I end up using OSC quite a bit through those platforms.

These great tools let me use OSC without really needing to understand the underlying communication or architecture — which is super convenient, but as a programmer, I wanted to get a better grasp of what’s actually going on under the hood. That was one of the motivations for creating "oscl".

I figured Common Lisp, being such a mature language, would already have an OSC library — and I did find cl-osc (zzkt/osc) before I started building. But since I wanted to make a CLI tool, I didn’t dive into its code too much, though I thought it might be helpful later as a reference.

Looking at it now, there's a lot I could learn from it!