my first experience with high quality code was with tge quake2 engine.
i was both amazed by the simplicity of the architecture (a huge single event loop), and the attention to code presentation and indentation.
Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
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Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#52I would suggest Laravel!
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#53Can't say I've seen enough to be confident on the best library but redux (https://github.com/reduxjs/redux) is just so simple, and has great, readable/understandable code.
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#54SQLite. and for this reason alone! https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html As of version 3.23.0 (2018-04-02), the SQLite library consists of approximately 128.9 KSLOC of C code. (KSLOC means thousands of "Source Lines Of Code" or, in other words, lines of code excluding blank lines and comments.) By comparison, the project has 711 times as much test code and test scripts - 91772.0 KSLOC.
Inversely, this is counteracted by the logic to not use Git:
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#55Python core libraries have great code. You can open pretty much any module and be able to understand the source without much context.
You obviously did not dig in :D There are absolutely terrible parts, would not recommend!
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#56A lot of the KDE source code is well written and maintained.
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#57OpenBSD and Co. (OpenSSH, etc.) * https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/ * https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/ * https://www.libressl.org/ * https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/
Just wanted to +1 this.
Once had to make some changes to OpenSSH for an internal project and it was surprisingly easy to find the relevant code and make the necessary changes. One of the few times my code worked on the first compile.
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#58LLVM and associated projects such as clang. Bazel is good too. OkHttp and Retrofit by Square.
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#59The Quake 3 source was fairly good...
Oh, this +1. I ported it to another C dialect (test case for the compiler) and found those parts I touched well structured and easy to understand.
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#60For Java I would say H2 SQL DB. It is small, compact, packed with features and good abstraction.