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Ask HN: which projects are great showcases for their languages?
It's commonly said that the best way to improve as a programmer is to read great code. I recently thought about this while searching for really elegant JavaScript, which I find is a pretty tough job since the language written in some many ways. What I really want is something like Beautiful Code, but more up to date and more focused on elegant usage of the host language. To get started, here's what I like:
- Java: XOM (http://www.xom.nu/designprinciples.xhtml)
- Scheme: anything from Essentials of Programming Languages (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/eopl/)
- C++: I like QT (http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commits/master-stable), but I'm interested in others
I'd really like to see stunning examples of:
- JavaScript(!)
- Python
- Ruby
- Perl (just kidding)
- iampims 16y agoC: Redis http://github.com/antirez/redis http://github.com/antirez/redis
- daleharvey 16y agoI would also like to see an open source javascript web app written "the right way", I have a lot of javascript code, its getting nicer, but I still feel like I am missing something. most large open source javascript is libraries and such, they are very different from applications for erlang it seems anything that comes out of http://www.basho.com/ http://www.basho.com/ is a good showcase, mochi as well.