In what sense, I am honestly curious. I have only glanced over Supercollider and dabbled in ChucK. I imagine there are higher-level constructs in SC?

When I tried it a few years ago, there was no way to read a stereo wave file :-) Looking at the changelog, it seems it was introduced around version 1.3.0. It was a showstopper for me then. At that time, I could not find an equivalent of SuperCollider's Patterns library which is fantastic : http://doc.sccode.org/Tutorials/A-Practical-Guide/PG_01_Intr...