starting with proccessing today: should I use 1.5 or 2.0 alpha?

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starting with proccessing today: should I use 1.5 or 2.0 alpha?

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PhiLho

Re: starting with proccessing today: should I use 1.5 or 2.0 alpha?

1 year ago

Use 1.5.1.
As the name implies, the alpha probably has lot of bugs, and you will have enough work finding your own bugs, you don't need some additional ones.

Beside, you have already lot to do before reaching the limits of 1.5.1 and needing the new features of 2.0 (whatever they are).

andres

Re: starting with proccessing today: should I use 1.5 or 2.0 alpha?

1 year ago

Hello,

2.0 is in the alpha stage, this means that some functions might change their name or in the arguments they accept. No more API changes should happen once reaching the beta stage, but some work is still needed for that to happen (check this page in the Processing wiki for a comprehensive description of the changes taking place between 1.5 and 2.0). Also, many external libraries might not work until the authors update them to be compatible with the new version of Processing. In addition, lots of bugs to fix (and find) right now...

However, the ongoing API changes are mostly restricted to advanced functionality. The majority of the drawing functions in 2.0 work at this point in the same way as they do in 1.5. I'd say that for basic use, both versions are interchangeable and sketches written in one should work in the other (most of the time).

For more advanced sketches, and specially if you need to rely on libraries, I'd stay with 1.5 a while longer while the current issues in Processing 2.0 alpha are straightened out and external libraries updated to work with it.

Andres

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