Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by Tao3300 » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 10:57 PM UTC

smrtinsert wrote: post #13

I remember liking the java sdk java source. Great small focused functions and nice use of newlines. You could tell the developers were forged in an era without syntax highlighting and large horizontal screens. Extremely scannable.

Yes! A fellow square! It's almost always a pleasant surprise to dig in and see how parts of java are actually implemented.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by suprjami » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 10:57 PM UTC

mav88 wrote: post #102

I have a soft spot for Musl libc just for how clear it is considering it's one of the most widely used libraries in containers and has to perform well in the real world. https://musl.libc.org/

This is the first thing that came to my mind as well.

I've said on here before, it takes real talent to write code which is this legible while still being small and efficient.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by e12e » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:08 PM UTC

Not a single code-base, but The Architecture of Open Source Application books are worth a look to help get started reading various sources: https://aosabook.org

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by adhoc32 » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:15 PM UTC

Godot is nice

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by cperciva » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:16 PM UTC

fisherjeff wrote: post #98

cperciva writes easily the most approachable, understandable code I’ve ever come across, e.g.: https://github.com/tarsnap/kivaloo

Thanks! I think kivaloo and spiped are probably the best quality code I've ever written.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by scrame » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:18 PM UTC

Surpised no one has mentioned the Nethack source, small codebase going on close to 40 years.

https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/tree/NetHack-3.7/src

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by nemo1618 » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:18 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #37

The early Go standard library (before it was hyper-optimized.)

I can't understate how valuable it is for a new language's stdlib to be so well written and therefore an excellent reference for style, design, performance, documentation etc. in your own code. Every time you need to lookup how something in the stdlib works, you get more exposure to what good code ought to look like.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by ramesh31 » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:19 PM UTC

Git without a doubt.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by techsin101 » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:21 PM UTC

for me jquery lib was very decent

Re: Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

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Post by baggiponte » Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 11:23 PM UTC

I guess scikit-learn?