[didibus]

The criticism seemed pretty clear. He said that last year 800k was spent, and none of it went into development of Processing itself. And that next year they plan to spend 1.2 million, and of that, only 2 developers are planned to spend any time further developing Processing.

And he said that's no better than what they had prior the foundation when him and Casey were working on Processing. That he started the foundation in the hope to scale up development.

Now, I have no idea what they could have allocated money on, isn't it sole purpose to further develop Processing? But my guess is they are doing outreach, grants, and other stuff like that, as opposed to further development. But that's just speculation on my part.

[thrown37291]

The purpose of the foundation has grown wider than the original Processing software, and encompasses things like p5js and its editor.

[gedy]

Your comments above seem to be implying that Ben’s concerns are only about investment in the original Processing software. Is this the case? Are there more devs being funded to work on p5js?

[nameisnttaken]

yes. they have been funding fellowship projects and grants for p5 more than Processing for years. Ben is just mad that Processing gets less funding but p5 has waaaaay more active users and is used more frequently in mission aligned contexts (education)