Not working software per se, but I think there's a lot of beauty in the way Sandi Metz demos a refactoring of a thing called The Gilded Rose in this video:
Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful software?
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#122JSON. The way it displays and organizes complex data, better than other standards like CSV or XML. Or the things that use tables. When I first started programming, I had two favorite ways of storing data - INI and arrays. INI for its elegant key/value style. Arrays were just natural because of the way computers think. I spent months trying to mold these two things together; how would you actually store key-value thin…
> JSON is just this beautiful thing that lets you store data however you want.
What if I want to store integers?
Not floats.
Integers.
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#123Joe Armstrong's "Universal Server".
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#124djb servers are really beautiful. Built securely from the ground up, with very little attack surface area.
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#125JSON. The way it displays and organizes complex data, better than other standards like CSV or XML. Or the things that use tables. When I first started programming, I had two favorite ways of storing data - INI and arrays. INI for its elegant key/value style. Arrays were just natural because of the way computers think. I spent months trying to mold these two things together; how would you actually store key-value thin…
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Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful software?
#126JSON. The way it displays and organizes complex data, better than other standards like CSV or XML. Or the things that use tables. When I first started programming, I had two favorite ways of storing data - INI and arrays. INI for its elegant key/value style. Arrays were just natural because of the way computers think. I spent months trying to mold these two things together; how would you actually store key-value thin…
I'm don't understand how JSON is better than XML, edn, toml, or yaml. They all have pros and cons, but if I had to pick one as being beautiful, it wouldn't be json!
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#127Rust. It's god damn beautiful. It's design is magnificent, so much so that it seems easy to write beautiful rust code myself.
Yes, there is a special kind of joy knowing that unless the underlying infrastructure has a problem you have handled all the edge cases, and it is still readable.
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#128bottlepy is a one file web framework that just works in both python2 and python3.
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#129JSON. The way it displays and organizes complex data, better than other standards like CSV or XML. Or the things that use tables. When I first started programming, I had two favorite ways of storing data - INI and arrays. INI for its elegant key/value style. Arrays were just natural because of the way computers think. I spent months trying to mold these two things together; how would you actually store key-value thin…
> JSON is just this beautiful thing that lets you store data however you want. What if I want to store integers? Not floats. Integers.
Or dates? No one would ever need to store dates or times, right?
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#130https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822
A tiny self-interpreting compiler and virtual machine. The beauty is in how amazingly minimal and yet functional it is.