p5.js
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
1warn against
Dec 22, 2025first mention
Oct 5, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“That's also going to be radically more token efficient!”
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“P5JS makes it very easy to start playing around with.”
“Personally find p5js/The Coding Train is the closest thing around to a modern equivalent.”
Caveats and dissent
“the results always felt limited and brittle”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Generative Art over the Years 3 mentions
- ASCII Clouds 3 mentions
- Gitframes 1 mention
- Sun Clock 1 mention
- Ask HN: How did you learn to code? 1 mention
- Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript 1 mention
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All comments 10
“That's also going to be radically more token efficient!”
“I made this one for myself and it's pretty similar”
“the results always felt limited and brittle”
“P5.js is pretty great.”
“making generative art first using Processing, then p5.js, and now mostly I create art by writing shaders”
“I made a p5.js ASCII Cloud sketch”
“P5JS is great and I've used it in the past”
“P5JS makes it very easy to start playing around with.”
“Personally find p5js/The Coding Train is the closest thing around to a modern equivalent.”
“the p5js version makes it easy to hack on”