Roadmap

libprocessing Roadmap

The libprocessing roadmap is split into a few high-level categories, plus a foundation that everything else depends on:

Foundations: stability, docs, and distribution that make everything else trustworthy.
Core rendering technologies: exposing engine-level features in Processing's core API.
Bringing historical 3rd-party library functionality into Processing itself: e.g. audio, MIDI, video, etc.
Narrow features for professionals, installation artists, etc.: e.g. NDI support, camera SDKs, lasers.
Advanced rendering techniques: rendering beyond the triangle rasterizer, e.g. SDFs, volumetrics, ray tracing.

Platform targets (desktop, web/WASM, embedded, XR) cut across all of these.

Stable release on upstream bevy, published to crates.io
CI with example, visual, and performance regression testing
Documentation site with architecture, contributing guide, API reference, and tutorials
Language bindings beyond Rust (Python via mewnala, Java for Processing, JS for p5.js)
Live coding and hot reload of sketches and shaders

Full Processing API coverage
Compute shaders and full-screen post-processing effects
GPU particles and simulation, like the 3D flocking demo from SIGGRAPH (#188, done)
HDR pipeline with EXR read/write (#178)
PBR materials and lighting
Shadows, bloom, depth of field, and other engine-level effects
Modern custom shader support (WGSL)
GPU instancing for drawing very large numbers of shapes
High-quality text rendering and font outlines
GUI built on bevy UI
Web/WASM parity, including p5.js as a libprocessing consumer

Audio playback, effects, routing, and analysis via bevy_seedling (replaces Sound/Minim)
MIDI (replaces The MidiBus)
Video playback, webcam capture, and video/GIF export (replaces processing-video, VideoExport, gifAnimation)
OSC and general networking: UDP/TCP, WebSockets, HTTP (replaces oscP5/netP5)
Serial I/O
Orbit/easy 3D camera controls (replaces PeasyCam)
2D and 3D physics (replaces Box2D for Processing, Fisica, toxiclibs physics)
Computational geometry and mesh tools: meshing, booleans, subdivision, Voronoi (replaces toxiclibs, HE_Mesh)
Tweening and animation easing (replaces Ani)
Computer vision: blob detection, optical flow, face/pose tracking (replaces OpenCV for Processing, BlobDetection)
Machine learning inference for vision, pose, and generative models
Depth sensors and hand tracking (replaces SimpleOpenNI, Kinect and Leap Motion libraries)
3D model import: glTF and FBX
PDF/SVG vector import and export, including plotter output (replaces the PDF/SVG libraries, Geomerative)
Maps and geospatial data (replaces Unfolding)