Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?

I am rather fond of the concepts described in "Clean Code" by Robert Martin but it seems that in real life, a really high-quality codebase is hard to come by.

While I am asking myself this question, the only one that popups to my mind would be Laravel: https://github.com/laravel/laravel (PHP)

One could think that a codebase as popular as React (https://github.com/facebook/react) would be a perfect example of "clean code" but with a glance, I personally don't find it very expressive.

This may all be very subjective but I would love to see examples of codebases that member of this community have enjoyed working with

ffmpeg https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg

What do you like about Laravel and dislike about React?

I like the Linux kernel codebase: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Recently had to make a few changes to ffmpeg codebase. It's pretty good.

I'm really curious how you see laravel as a shining example of clean code?

That thing is the epitome of a framework for frameworks sake.

Pretty sure Most of Martin's talks begin by complaining about this sort of thing?