I'm naive. I realize they don't all share the same feature sets Edit: Maybe I don't get the "processing" part The examples demonstrate so and I didn't see examples of processing complex data sets or anything. Would love to hear some elaboration on it. I noticed the statement "p5. Perhaps the point here is P5 manages more interactive components without the developer having to mash different tools together? In the same way that Arduino brought hardware hacking and IoT for the masses, Processing does the same for creative coding.
There's a ton of people out there that are not experienced hard core developers using Processing to create data visualization, interactive installations, games, and experiences mixing sound, vision and graphics. The P5. And this is a great step forward.
Besides, Lauren is doing a great job creating a community around the project. Osmium on Aug 7, parent next [—]. Processing was more or less how I got into 'serious' coding. It really cuts down on the bs and the boilerplate and lets you get started with getting your thoughts visualised on the computer, without worrying about the underlying technologies.
There's plenty of reasons why there would be such a state of affairs. Probably the biggest is that there is no clear winner in this space.
D3 is shoring up, but it is quite a bit more complex for non-devs IMHO than what this looks to be. Frankly this is a pretty lazy comment. I mean it's in beta, clearly, and people are in here harping about the accessibility of one of the presentations on the site and comparing it to relatively mature eg D3 is on v3 frameworks. That isn't very fair. A good portion of the API p5js. I don't want to discredit the project, it does look nice. You're point about beta is good.
