helping others with their processing code is what started me on the road to being a professional coder, and the article captures perfectly what it does exceptionally right. it's the glue-gun of programming environments--a super fast way to prototype and visualize an idea.

it makes me tear my hair out for the thing it lacks: a path to a production-worthy version. It encourages bad programming practices for the sake of simplicity (all tabs share a single namespace; global variables everywhere) which all but guarantee that once a sketch has reached a certain level of complexity it's a tangled mess of spaghetti.

Refactoring it at that point is A) challenging, and B) changes the api so much that the poor non-coder who's asked you to fix their broken code hates the new restrictions.