Anything by John Carmack. (DOOM's open source release, for example)
Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
#12Because of ego, I'm going to plug my own (a Java parsing tool): https://github.com/norswap/autumn4
And hopefully I can some constructive criticism :)
For something not from me but still in Java, the Proguard source code is very clean: https://sourceforge.net/p/proguard/code/ci/default/tree/
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#13I'm really curious how you see laravel as a shining example of clean code? That thing is the epitome of a framework for frameworks sake. Pretty sure Most of Martin's talks begin by complaining about this sort of thing?
> That thing is the epitome of a framework for frameworks sake.
Go on
Re: Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
#14I think the best codebases are the ones you immediately think “Oh, that’s easy. I can reimplement that in a couple of hours.”. When it's not. It’s never easy.
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#15For a C codebase, Postgres[1] wins for me hands down. It's clean and suuuuuuper well commente, such that with a little context you can dive into something very complex and still get a feel for what is going on.
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#16The Codemirror codebase [0] is simply written and richly commented, and using Codemirror itself in a project is a pleasure.
Tellingly, Marijn Haverbeke, Codemirror's creator, is also the author of the excellent 'Eloquent Javascript' [1].
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#17What do you like about Laravel and dislike about React? I like the Linux kernel codebase: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
At some point in Martins book, he mentioned a forgotten codebase from one of his friend that was solely composed of tiny functions but yet achieve a fairly complex effect. That's the kind of feeling I had working at Laravel (admittedly it's been a few years). React codebase, on the other hand, seem less human-friendly, it seems to require some prior knowledge of the code to be able to dive into.
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#18many mature frameworks have good standards. For php you can look at any code base that adbides by PSR standards and get good code.
Not only that but laravel is in a mature space where the problems are already solved. Its basically reinventing the wheel.
Im not surprised that Laravel is written cleanly but I hate its API. It reminds me of the bloat of Zend but with an obnoxious artsy style added to it.
Im an engineer not an artisan.
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#19I'm really curious how you see laravel as a shining example of clean code? That thing is the epitome of a framework for frameworks sake. Pretty sure Most of Martin's talks begin by complaining about this sort of thing?
A software's usefulness is not correlated to how well it was architected. What I like about Laravel is that its fairly complex code base that is mostly composed of tiny and expressive functions
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#20I know it's a cliche but the sqlite code is the easiest to read C I've encountered. Followed closely by the code for Redis.
I also like the C source for Tcl/Tk which I think also follows similar engineering/style standards.