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Best laptop for creative coding?

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    Fast and flexible WebGL-based HTML5 game and app development library.
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    • Open Source
    As for performance, there's a lot more to it than the hardware being used. p5.js isn't the most performant creative coding framework since it's more optimized for ease of use than performance (a good choice on the part of the creators imo). p5.s has an official guide on how to optimize performance. As for browsers it mentions that Chrome actually outperforms Firefox. Personally, I use Safari as my daily use browser but for web development, I still use Chrome because I'm used to its dev tools. Depending on what kind of creative coding you do on the web PixiJS could yield much higher performance. It's also possible (but difficult) for certain things to use shaders.

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    • Open Source
    If you're not limited to the web you can use Processing (the ”daddy” of p5.js so to speak) which out of the box has better performance. Further, still you could use openFrameworks which allows for much better performance.

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