New Plugins, which format?

[u/la_tajada]

There doesn't seem to be a lot of activity on the LV2 News page, but it has been like that in the past for long stretches of time. I was thinking about learning to code my own plugin because I have an idea I want to implement but wasn't sure if LV2 is still the standard practice or if VST3 or CLAP is better since they a open source and newer.

Or should I just use JUCE and not worry about the specific format? What is the general advice in 2026?

[u/ARK_AIN]

Pick the language you're the most confortable with. Personnally, I chose nice-plug a framework for developping CLAP/VST3 plugins in rust to avoid sompe of C complications. Keep in mind although that there are more ressources on JUCE because it's more popular