I recently started to mess around with Grasshopper, the famous plugin for Rhino which kinda revolutionized the way we deal with parametric design. Revolutionized, in my opinion, mainly because of its ease of use, as in a matter of minutes you can see something “amazing” coming on the screen. But I still think GH still has a long way to go before it reaches maturity.
When seeing the current GH production on the web, I am constantly reminded of the times when Flash was introduced and started to become very popular among web-designers. It was so easy to animate something and put on the web, that it didn’t take long for tons of animated websites to start appearing. But most of them were clearly produced without any critical thinking about them. To produce something really interesting, one had to learn the hard part of Flash, which involved Actionscript.