[Noisebridge-discuss] open frameworks?

[Rachel McConnell]

I just looked at the video on the home page, it looks somewhat similar 
to Processing (http://processing.org/), which I just learned about last 
week at the workshop Scott led.  Looks like Open Frameworks may have a 
bit more stuff built into it... perhaps it's the C++ answer to Processing!

I didn't see anything on the Open Frameworks site about Javascript - did 
you perhaps mean to compare C++ and Java?  They are reasonably 
comparable in power; the major difference I would cite is that in Java, 
you don't have to manage memory like you do in C++.

For the differences between C++ and Javascript, well there's a lot... 
C++ is a much lower-level language, the coder has to deal with a lot of 
detail that you don't have to in Javascript.  C++ is a compiled 
language, meaning your code has to be run through a compiler before the 
computer can execute it.  Javascript is an interpreted language, which 
means the computer reads your code one line at a time and executes it 
(it's still compiled but not all at once).  For this reason C++ code 
usually runs quite a bit faster than Javascript code.  C++ is used 
generally for bigger more complicated things; many applications like 
Firefox are written in it, as are much of the Unix-style command line 
programs.  Javascript is still used mostly within web browsers to make 
dynamic web pages, although it is possible to do more complex things 
with it as well.

Rachel

PS. this is a great place to post questions!

daniela Steinsapir wrote:
> Hello is anyone familiar with open frameworks programming language?
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> http://www.openframeworks.cc
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>  I was just wondering  the differences between a C++ application and a 
> java script application.
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>  I am sorry if this is not the place to post questions.
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