One thing that I like about these style of games is that they subtract the fiddly parts of programming that I don't find particularly enjoyable: things like dep

One thing that I like about these style of games is that they subtract the fiddly parts of programming that I don't find particularly enjoyable: things like dependency management, fiddly environment details, differing compiler versions screwing things up. This is because, of course, it's not real and so doesn't have to deal with the messiness of the real world.