Nannou – An open-source creative-coding framework for Rust

1. nannou

   1 70 6,688 8.4 Rust

   A Creative Coding Framework for Rust.

   

   I would suggest checking their github repo[1] and seeing the examples from the book “nature of code” they are astonishing with a shitload of them ! Same with “generative design”

   [1] https://github.com/nannou-org/nannou/tree/master/nature_of_c...

2. SaaSHub

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3. OpenFrameworks

   2 47 10,384 8.2 C++

   openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.

   

   OpenFrameworks[0] is quite popular for creative coding even though it's written in C++ - framework is actually pleasant to use. If you want to do some creative coding on both iOS and Android you don't have many options. If you want to use sensors (cameras, microphones, gyroscope, accelerometer, etc) and e.g. process video stream at 120fps you have even less choices.

   Sadly OpenFrameworks development seems kind of stalled. Nannou + Rust could be a good or even better alternative:

   1) painless cross-compilation to different platforms

   2) plugins installation via cargo

   3) more up-to-date plugins as tiny wrappers around CPAL [1] (audio I/O), nokhwa [2] (video i/o), opencv-rust[3] (video I/O and processing), rust-sdl2 [4](IMU sensors + game controllers), egui [5] (immediate mode gui + plotting)

   4) better errors and more modern language

   [0] https://openframeworks.cc/

4. glicol

   3 174 2,943 6.6 Rust

   Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust

   

   For those who are interested in creative coding and Rust, especially the sound/audio/music related work, you can have a look on Glicol:

   https://glicol.org/

   https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol

   A music live coding language and a DSP library written in Rust.

5. cpal

   4 14 3,768 9.2 Rust

   Low-level cross-platform audio I/O library in Rust

   

6. nokhwa

   5 7 785 7.0 Rust

   Cross Platform Rust Library for Powerful Webcam/Camera Capture

   

7. opencv-rust

   6 14 2,431 8.3 Rust

   Rust bindings for OpenCV

   

8. rust-sdl2

   7 36 2,941 6.4 Rust

   SDL2 bindings for Rust

   

9. egui

   8 238 29,309 9.6 Rust

   egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

   

10. quil

    9 9 3,046 8.0 Clojure

    Main repo. Quil source code.

    

    The quick run speed is great for shortening the feedback loop. I've had great experiences with Lisp-style environments for that reason, and the language is much higher level than Rust while still offering good performance. I've mainly used Quil, the Clojure wrapper around processing: https://github.com/quil/quil

11. p5nim

    10 1 61 2.6 Nim

    🌸👑 p5nim: processing for nim through p5js

    

    Surprised to see this kind of project in Rust but it looks interesting.

    Cannot resist plugging a Nim wrapper for p5js (although it’s a bit early stage), in case other are interested in doing p5/processing stuff in a niche but fun (and easy to pick up) language: https://github.com/pietroppeter/p5nim

12. processing

    11 467 6,490 3.8 Java

    ⚠️ Processing moved to processing/processing4 ⚠️

    

    That would be, for example, "Processing"

    https://processing.org/

13. evcxr

    12 81 6,432 8.2 Rust

    

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