Software has a habit of becoming exponentially complex as the featureset increases, so I am not that impressed by small code if you cut features aggressively.

Software has a habit of becoming exponentially complex as the featureset increases, so I am not that impressed by small code if you cut features aggressively. To prove a point, I wrote a minecraft clone in about 60 lines of code (10x less than the Python version). It cuts a few more corners (no textures, no gravity), but has the basics of world generation, rendering, and most importantly, adding and removing blocks in front of the crosshairs to build (see the little arch I made in the middle): http://i.imgur.com/ZZWFkXn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZZWFkXn.jpg It's written in Lobster in about 1.5hrs, which is quite similar in features to Python + pyglet. Yes it uses a few high level calls like simplex() and camera_FPS_view(), but these have been part of the Lobster standard library for a while, so I believe that's fair. All code I created for this demo are in that screenshot.