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📣 agomez314

Best Codebases You've Worked With?


This question has been asked a while ago [1] so I wanted to ask again, what's the best codebase you've worked in or seen? Could be a work codebase, open-source or just your friend's side project.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20556336


  👤 dyingkneepad Accepted Answer ✓
The Linux Kernel, by far. Once you understand The Way the Kernel developers writes code, you can understand a lot of code you've never read before because they use the same patterns. I've worked with a lot of open source stuff and none is as neat as the Kernel.

👤 jamil7
An internal framework for mobile apps that the CTO of a previous company had built. Very simple and very flexible surface that hid a lot of complexity of persistence, offline state syncing and conflict resolution.

👤 pestatije
Spring