And yet, because it is written in C, it is still easier to understand than the utter mess going on in Minetest C++ source code.

I find the code fairly readable to be honest (and I'm coming from a c++ background). Yes it's very long-winded in places but try breaking things into chunks in your mind.

Unfortunately this project seems to be dead.

@dabockster I am helping a person just out of high school learn C, and they find it very easy to read. IMHO, including comments within the code would lead to disconnects and bloat the line number count, discouraging people to read the actual C language.

@crazyBaboon the project is not dead. The maintainer has been accepting PRs. What I think is happening, is that he simply disregards issues that should be addressed by the same posters (e.g. if my proposal would be to have documentation, then I would offer a PR with .md files).