[nixpulvis]

A healthy percentage of the open source projects companies I’ve worked for have used and opened PRs against I would call pretty good looking. Ruby on Rails was always nice to read through and well documented. I also find a lot of datasheets and RFCs to be highly elegant and beautiful, if not a bit dense and verbose. It just depends sometimes, what makes something like art beautiful.

I disagree strongly that “the actual way software is written …”, though it does feel like trying to write clean code is an uphill battle sometimes.

Back to the shop analogy. Cleaning up oil spots and maintaining well polished tools requires time and care.