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by eranation 4993 days ago
Yep, that's the current way I do things, but you know how much reading hacker news can be confusing. And not always what is popular == what is good code examples.

I'm looking for a highly acclaimed open source project, or developer, that most people agree is a good example. Some sort of a "developers academy" that gives awards for "best design" "most elegant code" etc. like the Oscars. then people can follow the practices. Sadly, at the moment, these things are not taught in school, or anywhere. If I want to learn making movies, I know exactly what movies to analyse, for coding, I have no clue, there is no guarantee that a popular github project is also well written, it just might be doing its thing right. I hope I managed to point the problem, and I think as a community, we should build some standards that are cross language and framework, and maintained and evolve with time. e.g. the "good code principles, with examples, certified by top 1000 in stackoverflow, 20 YC CTOs, 10 professors from Stanford, 20 R&D managers from the enterprise world, and 1000 top hackers on hacker news. crazy, but this is exactly the film academy, isn't it?

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I think that, especially once you start asking for cross-language, cross-framework standards, you're simply asking for the impossible. I know that feeling, wishing some kind of authority could help you determine the One True Way but there is almost certainly no such Way that is equally True and Singular across all possible languages & frameworks.