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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...
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/
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.
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
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
That would be, for example, "Processing"
https://processing.org/