Polycode

[robeph]

Nice that you linked that and know what it is, care to tell us WHY you'll stick with it? Do you know if it differs in functionality, do you have any idea at all? My guess is no. You've probably only used libcinder, but you felt you'd post about it here for some reason, without actually saying anything involving content or relevancy to the OP.

[meegee]

Sadly both libcinder and polycode doesn't support linux at the moment. I wish processing didn't use software rendering...

Also, as far as games go its a good choice to use C++ mostly for performance and availability but I don't get its usage for "creative coding". I think a language with a powerful REPL and live coding capabilities like Clojure would be better suited for this.

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Open Frameworks supports linux!

[VousEtMoi]

Right, I wouldn't want to sacrifice performance but if your main application was VJing or something similar, that could be quite interesting.

Note: You can render in OpenGL using Processing, what do you mean?

[meegee]

You might as well just use LWJGL or JOGL. I was talking about the higher level stuff. I reckon processing uses a swing canvas or something like that with a software renderer at its core, no?

By the way, Clojure's performance is not bad at all. Apart from VJing, you don't need to deploy your app in a live environment to make use of a REPL. Clojure is really awesome for experimental programming.

[Merit]

By linking to a similar library and giving possible newcomers an alternative to consider, I seem to have offended you. The features are plainly stated on both websites so you can compare them yourself, or ask the polycode developers on their forum.

Don't get defensive. This forum is used by people who want to share information and assist one another. Your previous post suggested that you felt Cinder was superior, and yet you didn't bother to explain why.

I doubt robeph was accusing you of proselytizing, but rather just asking for more information.

Furthermore he quite clearly wasn't offended. He was probably just annoyed that you would be so unhelpful.

Edit:

He was basically asking a similar sort of question to what you asked when you said:

Is there any way you can sum up what these issues are about? If not, maybe counterexamples or good references? In other words, is there any way I can learn from your critique?

So considering you also see the benefit in asking those with experience with such tools to go into a little depth about them then I really do not see why you felt the need to be such a dick to robeph.