started Porting from other frameworks

[tpltnt]

Hi there,

I started a section on porting from other frameworks. This was inspired by issue 443 in the nannou-repo.

Cheers, tpltnt

[mitchmindtree]

Hi @tpltnt , thanks! I think it would be useful to have something like this. Perhaps instead of creating a new chapter for this in the guide, we could break this into tutorials instead?

For example, perhaps we can have a very short tutorial that is something along the lines of "Draw once at the beginning" that demonstrates your nice code snippet. Then we could have a separate tutorial that is something like "Tips for Processing users" where we link to the other tutorial? This way we can provide the information in a more general way, while still guiding users coming from other frameworks. Thoughts?

[tpltnt]

I understand what you want to achieve and there is a good case for it. My current view is that a chapter is like a guide on a given topic (e.g. developer reference). Tutorials are more like accomplishing a task within nannou (e.g. like drawing 2D shapes). This contribution is intended to address porting, just like tutorials address learning and the "getting started" chapter helps you to get going. Right now there is the unfortunate situation that the content has one example which technically can also be a tutorial. However I see this chapter in a more abstract light and I hope it will develop to an comprehensive porting guide in the future. We agree on 90% here already :) I would still like to see this PR merged. If things develop differently than currently imagined, we can still split it up.