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Re:The History of Processing by acomjean on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:17AM (#16876053)
I like processing. It easy to get up and running with it and the tutorials are great. Programing graphics is fun (I cut my initial programming teeth on logo). I didn't realize its kinda Java till I started using Java at work.

The name "processing" isn't great though. It can be difficult to remember.

Somewhat fun there are "javascript versions" for the browser, but somewhat confusingly there are a few versions: processingJS [1], p5js (which I think is the official processing port).[2]

http://processingjs.org/ https://p5js.org/

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Re:The History of Processing by hiphipjorge on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:36PM (#16881305)
> The name "processing" isn't great though. It can be difficult to remember.

I interned with Ben Fry about 6, 7 years ago and think I remember him saying that he regretted naming it "Processing" because of all the reasons people mention here (google, it's a verb, sounds a bit generic, etc)

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Re:The History of Processing by dri_ft on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:10AM (#16876560)
> It can be difficult to remember.

To google, too.

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Re:The History of Processing by pmarreck on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:28AM (#16876698)
Possibly the more important trait these days
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Re:The History of Processing by nwsm on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:39PM (#16878758)
>its kinda Java

It is Java.

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