I think what's most interesting about the original article is the write-up and not necessarily the implementation itself. I find reading and following >~ 500 LO

I think what's most interesting about the original article is the write-up and not necessarily the implementation itself. I find reading and following >~ 500 LOC to be burdensome and difficult so keeping it short and small is certainly an advantage for this style of article. I'd really enjoy seeing your write-up on your implementation. If there's going to be an article we're going to link new people to in order to teach them ray-casting I'd hope we could teach them the best techniques that we can.