Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?

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Post by inapis » Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 9:30 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?

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Post by frunzales » Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 10:57 PM UTC

Take a look at PostreSQL.

Re: Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?

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Post by scotty79 » Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 11:06 PM UTC

frunzales wrote: post #2

Take a look at PostreSQL.

Sqlite might be good bet too. Especially with engineering. I have their famous test suite in mind.

Re: Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?

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Post by cdvonstinkpot » Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 11:19 PM UTC

Vyatta's firewall distribution had some documentation which struck me as being remarkably well-written back in the day. Usage appeared to be well thought out. Don't know if their code is nice or whatever but if other aspects are any indication, I'd imagine it too is well done.

Re: Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?

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Post by sdfiogjijd » Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 11:26 PM UTC

* PostgreSQL

* Varnish Cache

* qmail

* Mercury Programming Language

Re: Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 11:30 PM UTC

sdfiogjijd wrote: post #5

* PostgreSQL * Varnish Cache * qmail * Mercury Programming Language

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Re: Ask HN: What are some well written/engineered open source software?

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Post by adamnemecek » Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 11:41 PM UTC

RxSwift https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxSwift is gorgeous. Cycle.js and RxJS also. Chromium + LLVM also (minus the x-platform parts but those suck everywhere).