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#12Daniel Shiffman was the one that introduced me to this library years ago. Their videos were essential to my development as a programmer
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#13This is a really pretty website! I'm surprised that they decided to take out the part in the About section mentioning that this is a continuation of the ideas from Processing - I guess maybe now P5.js is more popular than processing is/was?
I really loved proce55ing as a mini language. I think it made a ton of sense in a world where it was fairly difficult to manipulate pixels inside something like a canvas inside a webpage if you wanted to make an interesting visual experiment. And it was also very readable and accessible to artists with little programming experience.
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#16I think the key reason why this link has been posted to HN now is because p5js has a new website? Back in 2023 the Sovereign Tech Fund gave the p5js folks a €450k grant[1] "to enhance p5.js Documentation organization & accessibility" and this seems to be some of the results of that investment. In my view, it seems to be paying off - the site feels a lot easier to navigate and search, with more useful information. For…
It's nice that they keep the old site available as https://archive.p5js.org/
I'm not a fan of the layout on large screens though. The linked tutorial [1] is fixed width left-aligned paragraphs, which makes right half of my display empty. On the other hand, other elements like on the reference overview [2] are stretched in four columns across the whole display which looks ok when the browser window is half my displays width but is hard to read when the window is maximized.
[1]: https://p5js.org/tutorials/p5js-with-screen-reader/ [2]: https://p5js.org/reference/
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#17I think the key reason why this link has been posted to HN now is because p5js has a new website? Back in 2023 the Sovereign Tech Fund gave the p5js folks a €450k grant[1] "to enhance p5.js Documentation organization & accessibility" and this seems to be some of the results of that investment. In my view, it seems to be paying off - the site feels a lot easier to navigate and search, with more useful information. For…
We also featured it quite prominently in yesterday's JavaScript Weekly. With ~175k subscribers, things we include often make it to HN front page hours later. It's next to impossible to actually prove the connection.. but it's just part of the fun of how links spread around the ecosystem for me :-)
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#18I think the key reason why this link has been posted to HN now is because p5js has a new website? Back in 2023 the Sovereign Tech Fund gave the p5js folks a €450k grant[1] "to enhance p5.js Documentation organization & accessibility" and this seems to be some of the results of that investment. In my view, it seems to be paying off - the site feels a lot easier to navigate and search, with more useful information. For…
Recently did a digital ad entirely in processing and then ported it to p5js. In my experience with it…
* processing is still much easier to work, even though p5js seems to catch-up. I did work with it like 10 years ago and it was already very easy
* it was very easy to spot bugs or missing implementation in p5js
* While an almost identical port was possible, it’s not 1:1 and takes learning some APIs
* p5js is not even close to d3 or three.js in terms of performance
* tbh it seems to me lot easier to animate in web with modern css3 and some helper libs, than use p5js. In fact I would see a very straight pipeline from free vector apps into css with very little shading without p5js. Which makes me wonder how is p5js relevant in 2024, apart from educational tool.
* For things which involve pixel level compute there is no easy way to use the GPU efficiently
For me this whole 450k funding is quite bizarre, and in particular the fact it got directed to a not so popular framework.
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#19This is a really pretty website! I'm surprised that they decided to take out the part in the About section mentioning that this is a continuation of the ideas from Processing - I guess maybe now P5.js is more popular than processing is/was?
> I'm surprised that they decided to take out the part in the About section mentioning that this is a continuation of the ideas from Processing
There was a schism between Ben Fry and the Processing Foundation, so I would reckon it's political. One of his chief complaints was how the p5.js project had taken over the Processing Foundation and minimized Processing development.
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#20I've used P5.js in a ton of my professional work although would suggest anyone interested in using it today know what happened with one of the founders of the foundation and creator of the original Processing language P5 derived from.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37760363
Knowing what I know now I regret supporting the work of Processing Foundation.