Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?

Re:Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read? by gwbas1c on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:27AM (#37261468)

> But also sometimes it makes more sense to copy and paste over trying to fit an abstraction where it shouldn't be. :)

I find that's a smell of limited languages: Maybe a language has poor error handling semantics, maybe it's not expressive enough to make a parameter generic.

It can also be a smell of not understanding the language well enough, too. Maybe there is no need to copy and paste, but the programmer didn't understand the language well enough to make a generic abstraction.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read? by nkjnlknlk on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:53PM (#37264016)

I agree. I've had the unfortunate experience of moving from more expressive languages and interesting problems to less expressive languages and boring problems as the size of my TC and company go up. :')

But you can only do what your tools allow you to do.

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