Pipewire vs PulseAudio, general question

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Pipewire vs PulseAudio, general question - Lemmy.world

What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?

Pipewire is the new hotness. I’ve read comments from various audio engineers and programmers that pipewire “gets it right”.

Pipewire came out in 2017, pulseaudio in 2004.

Audio engineer here. Anything ALSA is inherently does not “get it right”
What sort of problems have you heard of or seen? I’d like to hear your different perspective, if that’s ok with you?

This got me curious what these acronyms were. I found this information interesting.

hal.science/hal-03116888/document

I suspect they meant “Hardware Abstraction Layer” for “HAL”
Well if they had actually added something other than “that bad, this good” we might actually know.
I don’t think it’s entirely necessary to explain the entire topic in a simple lemmy comment about something that is so easy to search for and learn about.