Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?

Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by hyperman1 on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:50AM (#18038983)

Its older than some HN posters, but the GPLed DOOM source code was one I liked.

The performance reached by the game was considered impossible until Carmack did show us otherwise. So I expected lots of ASM and weird hacks, especially as compiler optimization wasnt as good as it is today.

Surprise, surprise, the thing was easy to read, easy to get going, easy to port, reasonablye documented . It has shown me what a goog balance between nice code and usable code is.

If you want tho browse: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM

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Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by NoSirRah on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:11AM (#18039088)

FYI, "Surprise, surprise" is generally meant sarcastically. I think you mean "Surprisingly".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surprise,%20surpr...

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Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by hyperman1 on Friday September 21, 2018 @11:42AM (#18040492)

  I can speak English!  I learn it from a book!

Though not always very good. Thanks for the bugfix.

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Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by jay_kyburz on Friday September 21, 2018 @04:44PM (#18042534)

Actually, Hypeman is using this correctly in my opinion. We all knew the code would be good, it was only him that doubted it. So its not surprising to us, the reader, that the code is good.

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Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by iso-8859-1 on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:56AM (#18039318)

You are reading cleaned up source code that only compiles and runs on Linux. That's why it looks nice.

  Many thanks to Bernd Kreimeier for taking the time to clean up the
  project and make sure that it actually works.  Projects tends to rot if
  you leave it alone for a few years, and it takes effort for someone to
  deal with it again.

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Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by hyperman1 on Friday September 21, 2018 @09:10AM (#18039395)

I didnt have interrnet at the time so I didn't check github 20 years ago ;-)

On the more serous side, i wanted to say something about the TODOs as example of the balance, but couldnt find any. I thought i was confusing with quake, but the cleanup might explain it better.

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Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by GNi33 on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:39AM (#18039225)

These 666 forks can't be a coincidence, right?

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Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by thecatspaw on Friday September 21, 2018 @09:46AM (#18039627)

it seems to be, judging by the fact that its now 667 forks

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Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by blackbeard334 on Friday September 21, 2018 @09:29AM (#18039513)

667

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Re:Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has th... by de_watcher on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:34AM (#18039205)

The DOOM code is so straightforward. You don't ever experience that feeling of having zero understanding of the code when you look into a file.

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