Y'know, I think my past years of KotMKs, along with a general getting older / getting into less self-centric romantic relationships (and the accompanying less time to sink into playing long games) has taught me that "experimental science-y widget games and toys and such" are about 80% of why I'm interested in games at all.

As a medium, I think it's one of the places where video games stands out... other mediums might be a bit better at telling a narrative story, and real life sports and games like darts or chess might be better at providing challenge and a meaningful sense of competition and accomplishment, but games are the place where we can make and interact with a new environment. (Though games are probably much better at providing a satisfying but fake-y sense of challenge and accomplishment, which is kind of what "Reality is Broken" is all about.)

Dunno much about other platforms, alas. In some ways Processing doesn't provide all that much, just a timing loop and a way of drawing squares and triangles and lines and graphics if I wanted, and basics for math and key and mouse processing -- almost any platform gives you that I think... the difference is with programming I can (and in Processing sort of have to!) do stuff from scratch, since I don't get basic stuff like sprites and physics and gravity for free... and Processing lets me tap into my Java history (though that's very similar to C and Javascript and all those)

So in the past I've been lazy about including the Mac and Linux versions... and worried about the file size if I simply bundled 'em all together.