Monday, May 18, 2026

the new assembly

I've always liked Processing and P5.js as ways of... just having a little canvas to do cool low level graphics and interactions and small games in. He's got some kind of campaign going using this splash image:

It was interesting seeing the blob of code on the left. It reminded me that while I can still "live code" P5 ok I'm starting to get rusty about some of the bread and butter commands (like if "stroke()" was for color or width)

But then somehow it's like... there's that line that says "Javascript is the new assembly language of the web", that people will be coding in higher level things that turn into JS. But now with so many people coasting on LLM, it kind of feels like there might be a time when, any code whatsoever will have that "assembly language" vibe. 

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