Replied late to this thread and tl;dr (sorry) but linguistically we can send Processing back to the Stone Age.
It occupies an interesting middle-ground: folks, a lot of them artists, who are maybe too old for e.g. Scratch, making stuff to run on Arduinos, etc.
We suck at real-time mainly because GC and the operating systems we run over which are busy with multi-user pre-emptive multitasking and virtual memory when there's only ever one user and plenty of RAM, etc, but most people doing Processing aren't liable to be using the micro controllers for real time applications anyway. It's just a conveniently C-like curly braced language that compiles down to Amtel machine code. I guess ARM now too.
It seems like the answer to your question is simply "lead a popularity contest and win." The longer explanation is most likely "for all but seriously real-time apps, yes" but that's not the whole game. Most of the game isn't real-time, and we (in the longer term) should be able to improve and extend the Slang system to deal with realtime issues in machine code while the VM just sleeps.
So, I guess I'm saying: in the long game, I think yeah.
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On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, tim Rowledge <
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The Pi just got ‘Processing’. I haven’t looked hard at it but it does look fairly simple stuff. I’m pretty sure we could provide something better - which is partly why I’ve been looking at B2D & B3D stuff.
Take a look at https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/now-available-for-download-processing/ for an idea of what it’s about.
tim
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