I don't agree here. What is "simple clear code"? Space Invaders is no benchmark for me. I myself do demo coding on Amiga 68000 and debugging consumes a lot of t

I don't agree here. What is "simple clear code"? Space Invaders is no benchmark for me. I myself do demo coding on Amiga 68000 and debugging consumes a lot of time with the infamous Gurus. Compare this to a breakpoint in your code on modern machines. Rebooting takes time etc. Workflow is also tough. Corrupt diskettes - and there goes your source code. Also on a machine code level you have to deal with everything yourself. How to represent floating point math? Fast division? Large datasets? Clipping to deal with 3d vertices? Blitter settings sometimes feel like magic not science. Small projects are indeed fun, however larger one in my opinion not really.