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by bGriz
4335 days ago
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| You could just look at the link's "Start" page for <5 minutes and see for yourself why it's different enough to warrant existence Honestly I'm not seeing what's different. I'm working on a hybrid canvas/html5 feature app right now. A good portion of the API (p5js.org/reference) feels, well, typical. I don't want to discredit the project, it does look nice. You're point about beta is good. In fairness, this appears to be targeted towards non-programmers, and having been deep in UI for years I may be missing the simplicity sake. Also, I had no interest in slamming them for a temp broken browser context... rather I'm trying to understand what makes this awesome. In years of browser UIE I hadn't heard of http://processingjs.org/. |
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It is not referring to "processing" anything as a verb, but the name of the programming language outlined at https://www.processing.org
processing.js and this p5js are interpreters for the processing language built in javascript (so that people can write processing scripts in javascript).
You probably haven't heard of it in browser ui/development because it's not specific to the browser.
Many people use it to build interactive art environments both virtually and in the real world (tied to things like servos and light machines, etc) - and a lot of people use it to teach interactive graphics to kids or newcomers to programming.
So it's a totally different thing than what you are thinking of. It doesn't compete at all with any of the graphics libraries because it's for a different purpose.