Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

Re:Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? by fit2rule on Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:42AM (#7602562)

The sources to Lua are pretty darn great:

http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/

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Re:Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? by Tanner on Thursday April 17, 2014 @09:50AM (#7603500)

Here's is Mike Pall's ( the originator of LuaJIT ) guide to reading the Lua source code: http://www.reddit.com/comments/63hth/ask_reddit_which_oss_co...

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Re:Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? by fit2rule on Friday April 18, 2014 @03:45AM (#7608331)

Wow, great find! That's from 6 years ago - truly a gem in the reddit layers .. thanks for that!

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Re:Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? by jballanc on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:44AM (#7602717)

Agreed, and after you've worked through the source to the canonical implementation of Lua, you can level-up by looking into the source of LuaJIT: http://luajit.org/download.html

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Re:Ask HN: What source code is worth studying? by aktau on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:54AM (#7602745)

Both are immensely awesome codebases, but the level-up is perhaps a bit too steep. Going from delightful ANSI C (vanilla Lua) to a lot of assembly + C (LuaJIT's interpreter) and runtime assembly generation (the JIT) is no slight task.

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