Ask HN: What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen? old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005003 Been a while since this was asked. What has captured your attention for its elegance and beauty |
Ask HN: What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen? old - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005003 Been a while since this was asked. What has captured your attention for its elegance and beauty |
What's magic there seemed magical at the time because even Go's creators were only just coming to see the power of interfaces then. Now, having a decompressor read from a block reader, which reads in turn from some other place, is not magical, it's just good practice.
This is from Go 1. Unfortunately, that file accumulated tons of other ugliness over time, as it dealt with the real world. I was one of the people who had to make that line less magic. Sorry Rob.
https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado
Also Norvig’s spell checker:
Bittorrent and Bitcoin