Ask HN: What are some examples of well written C/C++ codebases?

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Post by seagoj » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 4:36 PM UTC

I'm attempting to up my C/C++ game. I learned C++ in college, and have been a professional developer for a decade at this point in other languages, but I have never done it professionally. What are some well written open source projects should I be looking at?

Thanks

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well written C/C++ codebases?

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Post by slewis » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 5:45 PM UTC

Try Redis: https://github.com/antirez/redis

Or Lua: https://github.com/LuaDist/lua

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well written C/C++ codebases?

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Post by perfmode » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

Postgres: https://github.com/postgres/postgres

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well written C/C++ codebases?

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Post by malux85 » Sat, Sep 17, 2016, 7:45 PM UTC

Redis Postgres Nginx Llvm+clang

They are a joy to read

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well written C/C++ codebases?

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Post by ruraljuror » Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 2:57 AM UTC

I will pass on recommendations from Nick Black:

9Some of the best code I can recommend includes: the core Linux kernel, OpenVPN, OProfile, OpenSSH, and the NPTL threading implementation from GNU libc. I recommend OpenSSL, the Linux PATA or TTY implementations, the SVR4 shared memory API, or the Berkeley Sockets resolver(3) API for examples of what not to do. Source: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/images/8/85/Msadvice.pdf

Re: Ask HN: What are some examples of well written C/C++ codebases?

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Post by borplk » Mon, Sep 19, 2016, 6:32 PM UTC

Maybe try this: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM