p5.js Review

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Pros

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Accessible documentation

Reference documentation and lots of examples are available directly on the website.

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Great community

p5 users benefit from the Processing community's 15+ years of growth and discovery. Processing code can easily be converted to p5.

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General programming concepts

As a continuation of the Processing project, this frameworks helps in understanding the general programming concepts that goes beyond drawing (connecting electronics, using sounds or the webcam etc),

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Easiest to learn to obtain high grade results

In a few days any body can understand extremely complex figures in a few minutes.

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A lot of YouTube tutorials

Cons

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No built-in rendering

If looking for something to build UIs with or similar, one might be disappointed by the lack of any pre-defined UI element objects and such in p5.js. One has to write all the rendering code for any objects one includes, integrating it appropriately with the loop.