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I don’t think you’re a jerk, I just want to offer a different perspective. I appreciate projects like this as a newbie. People say, “you can learn a lot by rea

I don’t think you’re a jerk, I just want to offer a different perspective. I appreciate projects like this as a newbie. People say, “you can learn a lot by reading other people’s code.” Unfortunately, most of the projects I try to learn from are quite large. It can be overwhelming to dissect. A project like this which sticks to the language (with few or additional libraries) allows me to pick apart what everything does.

IgorPartola 6y ago
And that's what these projects are great for. I have always appreciate simple things like this that allow me to learn new features of a language, or in this case the stdlib that comes with a language, without introducing too much cruft. I am still learning new tech and these kinds of demos are a great way to learn. I am just being overly pedantic about the 100 LOC thing because it's been used over decades as a kind of badge of honor/bragging rights. If you implement something that really relies on nothing in N LOC then it's warranted. If it's just a teaching tool, like this is, I feel that it's better to present it as "Show HN: how I learned about HTTP support in the Ruby stdlib and wrote a toy proxy server". The README for this project actually makes it sound like this is something you could use in production, which you absolutely should not.