@polymorphic.engine Yes true. That would also make implementing/testing against the strudel/vortex implementations easier I guess. Also with the new additional beat-oriented sequence representation, the mininotation should be a much more straightforward mapping to Haskell. This is also an opportunity to make breaking changes in the mininotation. For example now that _ and @ are aliases, we could repurpose @ for ties. We can also make sure that everything is patternable in the mininotation that could be.
@jalex Yes that would be so good, and I share your frustration with this aspect and the difficulty of installing etc. See Releasing Tidal 1.9.0 for steps towards this. It does need a lot of help though to get it working cross-platform.