I've been wanting to play with
Processing for some time, although time has been in short supply for awhile now. Anyway, maybe now that it's been
ported to JavaScript I can find a way to play around with it. From Wired:
John Resig, JavaScript Evangelist for Mozilla and creator of the
JQuery library, has ported the Processing visualization language to
JavaScript. We cover a lot of language and software developments here
at Compiler, but this might be the most impressive thing we've ever
seen.
If, like me, you’ve never head of the Processing language
until today, here’s a quick overview: Processing is an open source
programming language for people who want to work with images,
animation, and interactions.
Processing has three components, the language, the drawing API and the implementation (typically through Java). Resig’s port
uses regular expressions to convert the Processing language to
JavaScript for display in your browser. The second part of his project
handles the full 2D Processing API.
The result enables you to take advantage of the Processing language
without ever needing to write a line of code in it, which is pretty
amazing (and you can pass in Processing commands directly if you want
to).
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