Introducing a second HL library?

[Philippe Hurbain]

we don't have textures

We do, through texmap extensions.

Actually i think the brevity of ldraw format is not as great as it is pictured. Sure, the recursive nature saves space, but the vertices are stored in a very inefficient way: they are repeated in each face instead of being listed beforehand and referenced in faces. This makes "complex" parts very verbose and possibly waste all the gain from primitives.

Agreed (though conversion into other 3D formats show that LDraw format is overall very efficient). And it has the big benefit of beeing "local" (a single line carries all information needed to be meaningful).