what about Swift, the new programming language from Apple?

oat

what's the potential of the Swift language as compared to Java(Processing)? Is it just another scripting language ....

DCRaven

For me, Swift is an excellent opportunity to get Processing onto IOS reliably. Porting to IOS through Javascript isn't the best method but before Swift JS was the only viable method.

Swift syntax is simular to Java, Basic & OCamel but isn't too close so it still would be a large task to convert.

GoToLoop

Just like Object-C & C#, all efforts go to 1 proprietary platform! :-w
I'd pretty much prefer Processing for Dart. Or even D language! B-)

PhiLho

It is not a "scripting language", at least... It compiles to native code and aims at writing large programs.

GoToLoop

It compiles to native code...

In the native compile category, we've already got:

• Rust from Mozilla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)
• Go from Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)
• D from Digital Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)

All of those are multi-platform. Swift, as Object-C & C# too, are focused on their own proprietary OSes!!! >:P

clankill3r

@GoToLoop C# too?

GoToLoop

Yes @clankill3r. Even though C# is now available for other platforms, it only really shines on Windows. Just like Swift only shines on Apple OSes. 8-|

clankill3r

@GoToLoop I will start with unity soon and a lot of students use a mac so I wonder how it would go.

GoToLoop

• @clankill3r, pretty sure it's gonna be spectacular. <:-P
• However, this old 2014 forum thread is about having Processing API re-written to even more languages.
• Unity is a propriety multi-platform game engine whose API is in C#:
  https://Unity3D.com/unity/system-requirements
• The question is whether it is worthwhile to have Processing under Swift, C# or other syntaxes. ;;)

CalxDesign

Processing is so familiar now i use it for prototyping everything but I do wish it had a bit more under the hood. I'd love to see an a Processing crate for Rust. This would make my year.

jeremydouglass

@CalxDesign - I haven't tried Processing-rs, but it might be worth checking out.

implementation of Processing for the Rust programming language, with insipriation from openFrameworks and libCinder.

• https://github.com/rennis250/processing-rs

Possible related discussion:

• https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/25821/processing-c-mode

CalxDesign

Christmas appears to have come early this year.

BGADII

What's the current best flow for porting a processing sketch to IOS?

jeremydouglass

Re: Processing(Java) to iOS:

Unfortunately, as far as I am aware, the options are:

1. rewrite it in p5.js javascript, then wrap it in a iOS/JS wrapper, e.g. PhoneGap
2. or rewrite it from scratch as a native iOS application in Objective C or Swift.

Previous discussions:

• https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/19274/why-is-there-no-ios-section-for-p5
• https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/19471/processing-for-ios