Ask HN: What are some examples of well written C/C++ codebases?

6 points by seagoj 9y ago ↗ HN

I'm attempting to up my C/C++ game. I learned C++ in college, and have been a professional developer for a decade at this point in other languages, but I have never done it professionally. What are some well written open source projects should I be looking at?

Thanks

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slewis 9y ago ↗

Try Redis: https://github.com/antirez/redis

Or Lua: https://github.com/LuaDist/lua

perfmode 9y ago ↗

Postgres: https://github.com/postgres/postgres

malux85 9y ago ↗

Redis Postgres Nginx Llvm+clang

They are a joy to read

ruraljuror 9y ago ↗

I will pass on recommendations from Nick Black:

9Some of the best code I can recommend includes: the core Linux kernel, OpenVPN, OProfile, OpenSSH, and the NPTL threading implementation from GNU libc. I recommend OpenSSL, the Linux PATA or TTY implementations, the SVR4 shared memory API, or the Berkeley Sockets resolver(3) API for examples of what not to do. Source: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/images/8/85/Msadvice.pdf

borplk 9y ago ↗

Maybe try this: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM