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Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?

107 points pixelworm | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 05:08 UTC | HN request time: 1.146s | source

I’m working on improving my software design skills, and it was recommended that I study existing well designed codebases. What are some publicly accessible codebases you would consider gold standards for software design?
1. riffraff ◴[24 Aug 25 05:57 UTC] No.45001761[source]▶
I am not qualified enough to answer, but some ~15 years ago I enjoyed going through the book Code Reading[0], which is about this exact topic.

I think there was another one with a similar name but I can't think of it's name.

0: https://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/, check the TOC https://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/toc.html