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Busybox and uClibc are great examples of efficient C code. I submitted a feature, and they basically rewrote it to be less crap, and that taught me a ton.
Hard to know what good Python code is. Everyone seems to use some framework that fundamentally changes how you write apps. "best source code" is probably just what's best for that specific kind of work.
One of the most surprisingly clear code bases is LLVM. It’s an old complex beast, yet it’s organized beautifully. I mean, it has a lot of essential complexity but little accidental complexity. That’s usually what I strive for when coding. Complexity is sometimes unavoidable, that’s fine, that’s why it’s essential. However, avoidable complexity should be… well… avoided.
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Why? If you don't mind me asking.
Additionally out of the box you have one cli with compiler, package management, etc. instead of 30 choices to pick from
C++ for me is just: terrible compilation times, 17 ways to achieve one goal, not strong ecosystem
Generally not the nicest developer experience in compare to e.g C# or apparently Rust.
I'd feel more motivated to jump into LLVM code base it that was written in Rust because I don't think C++ is the future - which is sad, because C++ has a lot of cool jobs now.
Then trying and looking at https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad which can implement SD, it’s really well written and ideas well organized, concise, and it works on multiple platforms well.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013
It is not that the quality of the code is high, but just that it is well organized, and everything seems like it was written by a beginner. That makes it wonderfully easy to read and follow the logic.
Since have played around with the Source Engine, I follow the KISS principle with coding with high priority. Rarely trying to be clever, or try to over-do abstractions.
Another one is the Postfix codebase by Wietse Venema. It was notable because it's basically had the square root of 0 vulnerabilities despite being written in C and being one of, if not the most popularly deployed MTAs in the world (so basically a constant target for hack attempts - contemporary products like Exchange were basically a laughing stock for vulns in that time period). Anyway, the architecture of that codebase is bordering on beautiful. It's a total goldmine.
Bonus - a popular code base that made my eyes bleed, nginx. I think it's basically been re-written today but the earliest versions of it were horrible to read. It was fast back then but it was like some sick twisted joke of how to write code. This is not to take away from whoever created it, they still created a monumental shockwave when they released nginx, it was far more performant that anything else.
Quite simple and straightforward, and very modular. For a browser.
I always found much of the FFmpeg API very unintuitive and much of what I now know about it I learned from reading through mpv. Hardware accelerated encode/decode, etc.