By reading other people's code you start to get a feel for how many ways you can slice an apple. Many ways. I find even choosing the degree of formality is oft

By reading other people's code you start to get a feel for how many ways you can slice an apple. Many ways. I find even choosing the degree of formality is often difficult. If you have a gander at Oracle/Sun's JavaFX implementation, you'll see just how much code, how much complexity goes into making a large and comprehensive API - and also who the architecture is about 4x more complicated due to their will to try to build rendering pipelines, which is ultimately an optimization of sorts. And then of course the quick, dense, poorly commented code on some node.js implementations that seem to be novel and smart, but nevertheless threadbare. Finally - it seems that there is quite a lot of variety in common practices particularly in Javascript.