# Is Processing still gonna get updates?

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-processing-still-gonna-get-updates/42984
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [October 16, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-processing-still-gonna-get-updates/42984 "2023-10-16T12:18:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 11

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![mcintyre](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/mcintyre/32/14561_2.png) [@mcintyre](https://discourse.processing.org/u/mcintyre)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-processing-still-gonna-get-updates/42984/11 "2023-10-22T18:24:00Z")

</div>

Sure thing @hx2A. I’d also like to offer a belated thanks for py5.

My sketch for a recent [grant project](https://discourse.processing.org/t/a-little-meditation-on-empathy/42656) hit a wall with performance using [p5.mapper](https://github.com/jdeboi/p5.mapper) on an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4. I rewrote the sketch in Processing using [Keystone](https://github.com/davidbouchard/keystone) and it worked! The next challenge was syncing participants’ paintings across four distant Pi’s + projectors. [Firebase](https://firebase.google.com/) makes this easy and its Python SDK is very nice to use. I wrote the next iteration of the sketch using py5 and everything worked beautifully.

To your point about ecosystems, having access to Processing and Python libraries feels like magic sometimes.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-processing-still-gonna-get-updates/42984)._