Transmute VS p5.js

Last month I rewrote the transducer module's guts from the ground up. I'm super excited about this because it's really been more of a meditation on language and computation, but now that I've eliminated the most pernicious bugs, it basically works! Try the browser demo. I'm still figuring out how to use web workers with Fable, so if you want to see how fast it can go when it's running on all your cores, try one of the binaries.

Working on bug fixes and usability improvements in Transmute. Thinking about turning it out on a less technical audience this year.

Finally got my completely overengineered sound change applier working. Still got kind of a long list of todos, first one being insertion rules, which might be a problem. Parts of this thing are probably due for refactoring, if not a rewrite.

Processing (P5) had this: you can select any string of text in its IDE anl search for it in the docs, and if it's one of the built-in functions or constants it will open the associated static html page that came installed with the software, so no internet nor server required. And despite being offline you can still navigate the docs too. This feels a lost basic skill in static site generation these days.

It was the only creative coding framework that had complete, offline documentation like that at the time I might add. OpenFrameworks is still mostly autogenerated stubs for example.

IMO it was one of the things that gave Processing an edge in educational contexts over all alternatives. I was pretty sad to see p5.js not fully continue that tradition and require that you go online to read the docs, and that it's not a static website but that text is rendered with javascript when you open it (still complete and with examples though).

https://processing.org/

https://p5js.org/

I thought it could be funny to use the javascript version of it https://p5js.org/ in a web page and then wrap it in a Unity app, since Unity was and is the environment I use for making apps.

In this last section, I'll be creating some visual examples to show how helpful loops can be. I'll be using p5js, a JavaScript library with functionality for creative coding. That being said, I'll try to give a condensed version of the functions being utilized in the following examples.

I was curious too, took a little bit of digging :)

"the original domain of [P]rocessing was proce55ing.net, so people used to sometimes refer to processing as proce55ing or P5 or p5 for short. they still do sometimes. p5.js is a reference to that."

from https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues/2443

Sketch.js - https://p5js.org/

> how do I get him learning programming in a fun way?

Processing / P5.js can be pretty fun to learn. You use a real programming language to create art and animations. With little code you can get a circle on the screen, then making it move, then following your mouse, then adding other shapes, then changing colour depending on some event… It’s conductive to experimentation and a way to gradually introduce concepts.

https://processing.org/

https://p5js.org/

https://thecodingtrain.com/

Then I used p5js to create the 'art' itself, really user friendly coding framework with lots of resources online! If you want to get into coding, that is a really great entry point with Daniel Schiffman's coding train videos on YT!

Posted an issue for it that u guys can check out here: https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues/6166