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Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by 8_hours_ago » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 3:21 PM UTC

Dewie wrote: post #68

golergka wrote: post #39

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In my experience, best jobs you get aren't posted — as best candidates don't send out resumes.

But we can't all be the best.

The rest of us just say that we are an 'X' programmer when applying for a job that requires the 'X' programming language, and then during the interview mention that we also know a bunch of other languages and know how to use the correct tool for a problem ;)

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by decode » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 3:32 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #2

C -> Varnish PHP -> Yii Ruby -> Merb Scheme -> Arc Clojure -> Core JavaScript -> Multeor Any languages in particular that you're interested in not covered above?

    PHP -> Yii

Are you suggesting specifically Yii 1 or Yii 2, or either one?

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by AnkhMorporkian » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 3:44 PM UTC

timClicks wrote: post #25

SatyajitSarangi wrote: post #10

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Thanks for this list. I was mostly looking for Python, Javascript, Haskell and C#. Any help regarding that? Also, as I believe this thread will also help others, you can go ahead and post about any other code-bases for other languages.

Modules within the Python standard library are very well written. The source code also provides very good examples of decent unit tests.

I would stay the heck away from the collections and itertools modules to be honest. Raymond H. is an amazing coder, but he' s a madman.

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by joshuacc » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 3:53 PM UTC

villek wrote: post #62

I found the annotated source code of the underscore.js to be very educational: http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html

Worth pointing out that the tool used to produce the annotated version is open source, and annotated by running it against its own source code: http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by raamdev » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 3:56 PM UTC

twunde wrote: post #98

For PHP, I've been very impressed by Phabricator's code (and the related phutils library). It's worth looking at the git commits as well to see just how clean and structured commits can be. I'm much more impressed by it than by any PHP framework code I've read (and I've read Zend, Symfony2, li3, codeigniter as well as custom frameworks)

https://github.com/facebook/phabricator

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by egonschiele » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:05 PM UTC

SatyajitSarangi wrote: post #10

jacquesm wrote: post #2

C -> Varnish PHP -> Yii Ruby -> Merb Scheme -> Arc Clojure -> Core JavaScript -> Multeor Any languages in particular that you're interested in not covered above?

Thanks for this list. I was mostly looking for Python, Javascript, Haskell and C#. Any help regarding that? Also, as I believe this thread will also help others, you can go ahead and post about any other code-bases for other languages.

For Haskell, Hakyll's source is pretty well written.

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by tlrobinson » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:11 PM UTC

Lots of great suggestions here, but I'm interested in how you go about reading source code, especially very large codebases?

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by rasur » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:26 PM UTC

Anything by Fabrice Bellard (Google him, it's worth it).

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by snarfy » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:26 PM UTC

If you are interested in rendering engines I suggest Irrlicht. It's fairly clean and easy to understand.

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by biscarch » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:27 PM UTC

Erlang: Riak https://github.com/basho/riak Riak is actually a layering of a few different projects including Riak KV, Yokozuna (Solr), Riak Core, etc. It was grown out of the Dynamo paper.

Haskell: Snap https://github.com/snapframework/snap Snap is another project built in layers (snap-server, io-streams, snaplets, snap-core). The 1.0 release makes some pretty massive structural changes behind the scenes changes with minimal breakage of the public api and io-streams is a very nice api to work with.

JavaScript: Underscore.js http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html Underscore is a utility library that gives a nice overview of various techniques in JS, such as how to handle equality, use of apply, ternary operators, etc. Many functions have fallbacks to ECMAScript 5 native functions.