I have used the mono sourcecode as a goto reference for poorly documented .Net framework code, because usually it was clean and quality code. Some quick comparisons with the coreclr and .net reference sources also supported my impression. (a lot of code is being merged from mono now)
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Re: Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?
#72I'm a fan of the underused dlib C++ library[0]. It has a lot of uses and work transfers cross platform no problem. I know I can do all the work on my Linux machine then when it comes time to export for Windows just open up a VM redownload the repo and compile with cmake and it just works
The thing I like about it the most though are the examples which there are for every feature. The person who wrote it actually understands what I want out of an example, I want code I can look at and immediately understand what is going on and why. I want examples I can refer to when mine does not work so I can compare and see what it is I did wrong. Take the GUI example[1] for instance, anything that happens that is specific to that example has a comment. It makes no assumptions about your prior knowledge other then you understand C++.