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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: 0.217s | 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?
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chickenzzzzu ◴[24 Aug 25 07:28 UTC] No.45002117[source]▶
Your own. Everyone else's is trash. Never understand someone else's code-- the whole point is that there should be just a handful of functions of yours I can call, and shouldn't ever care to see how the sausage is made. Otherwise, your abstraction sucks
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pixelworm ◴[24 Aug 25 07:48 UTC] No.45002230[source]▶
I agree that the internals of my code should be abstracted away from my users. But don't I still want the internals to be well designed so they are maintainable and extendable?
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1. chickenzzzzu ◴[28 Aug 25 06:28 UTC] No.45049082[source]▶
The design will reveal itself to you the more you wrestle with the data and logic of the problem you are trying to solve. Full stop-- nobody on Earth would be more qualified than you at that point to say, unless they've already solved your problem