Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by tomc1985 on Monday May 02, 2022 @09:24PM (#31243227)

There's a series of space strategy/4x/combat sims called X where the latest entry seems to simulate entire economies and individual ships in real time. Dozens of sectors with hundreds of ships and dozens of space stations all humming along at 30-60 FPS.

Like Factorio it's incredible and makes me wonder wtf I was doing chaining together bullshit service APIs in my day job.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by cmeacham98 on Monday May 02, 2022 @09:36PM (#31243338)

This game sounds really cool, but I can't find it when I lookup "X game" or "X 4x game". Can you link it to me please?

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by tomc1985 on Monday May 02, 2022 @09:41PM (#31243383)

X4 Foundations is its name

https://store.steampowered.com/app/392160/X4_Foundations/

The expansion packs have expanded the size of the game world considerably, making the whole thing even more amazing

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by cmeacham98 on Monday May 02, 2022 @09:52PM (#31243486)

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by tomc1985 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:33AM (#31245003)

It's a little quirky (ok, very quirky) but one of my favorite games ever!

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