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You have to take a step father to argue that this framework is better than just using boilerplate.

If you need magic variables, you haven't actually fixed the boilerplate problem.

Possibly you've made it worse: defining the wrong magic variable will pass silently, as I argue in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156525, while misspelling the name of display.set_mode will give you a traceback that tells you where the problem is. Of course most people didn't get into programming because they got excited about reading error messages...

Actually pygame zero warns you if it detects that you have mispelled. For example of you use width, it will suggest that you use WIDTH. If you write onmousedown instead of on_mouse_down() it will also catch that and warn you.

Cool! So you have to get really far off before it doesn't notice?

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