[throwaway2847]

What's nice about these platforms is that they scale with the complexity you need. You can drop down to Python for scripting operations and UI interfaces in TouchDesigner, GLSL if you want to build your own shader pipelines, etc.

[scrumper]

Yes. There's some flexibility in there, though I haven't got enough experience with it yet to see whether that is a way through a ceiling or just a source of additional confusion.

Isadora has GLSL too, and a JS actor which is nice for stuff which gets tedious to patch like a calculation with more than one operator. I have used that one a couple times.