A colleague of mine recently introduced me to the language/framework called Processing.
It’s a Java-based visualization language. It’s meant to be a quick tool, targeting artists – and not necessarily programmers. So it’s pretty simple to use. But the coolest thing about it is this:
It actually works.
I don’t think that Processing is my new favourite programming language, but still – it’s a whole lot of fun. This is what I came up with, after about 2 hours playing around:
The Canvas Game Of Life (a pretty silly “living” drawing applet)
So, I’m impressed: Something built with Java does actually work. Like, even on Linux and all that. Okay, the IDE sucks, but for 100 or so lines of code, I can live with it.
Recreational Programming FTW!
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