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I wouldn't have thought to be in the minority when stating that I actually read a lot of foreign code out of curiosity. Especially when dealing with architectur
by W0lf 9y ago
I wouldn't have thought to be in the minority when stating that I actually read a lot of foreign code out of curiosity. Especially when dealing with architectural decisions, I like to dig into codebases I consider to be good and professional (a rarity in the professional/proprietary development world unfortunately).
For instance, reading the chromium source code or mozilla for that matter, give you a lot of good input since both codebases are sufficiently complex and deal with a lot of layers and stacks.
- albertgoeswoof 9y agoHow do you know a codebase is good before you invest time digging into it?
- W0lf 9y agoI don't. There are a few indicators though like the overall structure of the source files, how they are laid out on the file system. Minor details like inconsistent formatting. Typically if one or more of those indications is messed up, I'm pretty sure the rest of the codebase is also not in a good state. I still do skim through some files to confirm my expectation though.