Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Asciidoctor vs Processing: What are the differences?
What is Asciidoctor? An open source, pure Ruby processor for converting AsciiDoc documents or strings into HTML and other formats. It is a fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and other formats. Asciidoctor is written in Ruby and runs on all major operating systems .
What is Processing? A programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web. It is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets.
Asciidoctor can be classified as a tool in the "Text Processors" category, while Processing is grouped under "Languages".
Some of the features offered by Asciidoctor are:
- Lightweight markup language for authoring notes
- Articles
- Documentation
On the other hand, Processing provides the following key features:
- Free to download and open source
- Interactive programs with 2D, 3D or PDF output
- OpenGL integration for accelerated 2D and 3D
Processing is an open source tool with 2.9K GitHub stars and 786 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Processing's open source repository on GitHub.
Rosenblatt Securities Inc, Seeed Studio, and AndyMark are some of the popular companies that use Processing, whereas Asciidoctor is used by itembase, Inc., Parabol, and INOMERA. Processing has a broader approval, being mentioned in 13 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to Asciidoctor, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.