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Monument Valley and Monument Valley 2[0]. They're games, and relatively short/easy, but it's beautiful and elegant. [0] https://www.monumentvalleygame.com/mv2
There is a metric ton of elegant games. It's the elegant mundane software that is much more rare and therefore interesting.
Turbo Vision/Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS. Borland put together one of the best instances of an object oriented library that just worked. The follow up with Delphi for Windows was the most productive environment I have ever experienced, until I was priced out of it in their pivot to "Enterprise" customers. Nothing since is anywhere near as productive. Lazarus is ok, but the documentation is horrible, (almost non-existent,…
Related: I did a lot of WinForms programming in C# when I was a tools programmer at EA and I don't know if I've ever been as productive as during that time. The whole API was really well thought out, Visual Studio was fast, C# was a beautiful language.
It still is. (And Blazor is pretty cool, too.)
meld
Always impressed with Palantir's software.
Can you give an example? I’ve never seen it myself. What do you find the most impressive about it? Any links where those parts can be seen in action? Also, what would be the closest competitor, and in what regard are they worse?
Peter Norvig's 27 line spell checker https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
haha just kidding!