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> Or just the community it attracts?

The way it works seems to appeal to "artists" / "creatives". It's pretty simple to get a visual output fast and the always running (hot-reload) aspect makes it easy to iterate on things, tweak some parameter (size, speed, color) and directly see the outcome.

> normal industry projects

It's used quite a lot in the context of trade fairs, not only for touchscreen exhibits but also stage shows. Nice example: https://nsynk.de/work/mercedes-iaa15

There are also totally different kinds of projects/uses, they are just not that well documented. For example I know of a guy that programmed a feeding robot for a fish farm using vvvv.

> nobody famous

There is at least one "famous" user :)

https://refikanadol.com

If you have further questions feel free to join their matrix chat:

https://matrix.to/#/#vvvv:matrix.org

Thanks for the answers, explanation, and invite. It looks like interesting software, and live update does seem like a nice feature. I guess I'm just surprised that does not appeal to the WebGl, javascript, and online community all that much, since that's one of the main perks of those is quick feedback without compiling. Tweak, load the page.

Had not heard of Anadol (not much involvement in the pro art community), yet working with the sphere in Vegas probably means at least fairly well known.