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It uses SDL. Not saying that's good or bad, but it's the first thing I wondered about.

So slightly more than 1000 lines?

https://youtube.com/watch/kZRE7HIO3vk

Yeah, it still seems like a reasonable choice if you're going to write a simple game in C.

I’d imagine it will remain a reasonable choice for quite some time since it’s just a bunch of primitive operations.

raylib might be an option for consideration as well: https://www.raylib.com/

Or Sokol: https://github.com/floooh/sokol

Sdl is a good choice for very large and complex games too.

Very low overhead abstraction over platform specific APIs.

IIRC the source engine uses it.

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