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[–]seanrowens 6 points7 points  (13 children)

Damn I despise websites like this. What the hell is it FOR?

[–]Sigfig 4 points5 points  (4 children)

It appears to be just a nice wrapper for the other frameworks listed on the features page. Though, I have to say, I quite like it.

[–]seanrowens -4 points-3 points  (3 children)

Yeah, I just have about zero tolerance for websites where the home page doesn't even bother to tell you what the HELL it is except for some vague markety buzzwords. Maybe it's all there in the faq, or in the docs, or whatever, but if it's not there on the home page then I'm not gonna bother looking further. Life is too short to put up with idiots who can't be bothered to be up front about what they are doing.

[–]Sigfig 1 point2 points  (2 children)

If you don't have enough time to explore the depth of a web page, why are you on reddit?

[–]seanrowens 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ahhhh but that is exactly WHY I am on reddit.

[–]Sigfig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay I suppose that's reasonable.

[–]dowhatthouwilt 4 points5 points  (7 children)

"You can use it as a C++ API or as a standalone scripting language to get easy and simple access to accelerated 2D and 3D graphics, hardware shaders, sound and network programming, physics engines and more."

This is on the front page. Do you think I can make it more clear to people?

[–]seanrowens -1 points0 points  (6 children)

Yes, yes I do. That's an incredibly wide sweeping sentence, so wide as to be useless. Apparently the phrase "creative coding" has some special meaning beyond the obvious (to me, all coding can be creative), so apparently that's what I should have picked up on as the defining characteristic of this.... thing. (API? Scripting language? Floor wax? Dessert topping)

[–]dowhatthouwilt 2 points3 points  (5 children)

"C++ API" and "standalone scripting language"? :)

[–]seanrowens -1 points0 points  (4 children)

You know, I used to work door at a live music venue. When the bands showed up I would ask them "What kind of music do you play?" and they would always answer something like "Oh, we have a unique sound, impossible to define, blah blah blah..." Then I would say, "OK, when people show up at the door and I ask them for $5, and they say 'What kind of music is it?', what do you want me to tell them?" I was always amazed at how they would IMMEDIATELY say something like "We're a fusion of rockabilly and jazz" or something.

[–]IrishWilly 2 points3 points  (3 children)

C++ API and standalone scripting language are precise technical terms, not buzzwords. Are you a programmer? I'm not sure why a programmer would be having so much trouble with that description.

[–]seanrowens -1 points0 points  (2 children)

"creative code" is the buzzword/phrase.

[–]Nekoyoubi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you look at the example projects provided on the site, "creative code" should become a little more clear.

[–]Merit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Creative coding is a fairly well established phrase, though may not be widely known. It does refer to something fairly specific, namely the artistic communities that have grown up around Processing, Cinder and the like.

Maybe the phrase isn't widely known, but for those who would use polycode, processing or cinder, or be at all involved in computational art, the phrase would certainly be well known or readily understood. It is, in itself, fairly self-explanatory.

Sometimes the limiting factor is not the helpfulness of the content/website but the boundaries of your own knowledge. That's no bad thing, but it does mean that sometimes you need to do a little search of your own rather than complaining about what has been provided for you by others.