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I remember liking the java sdk java source. Great small focused functions and nice use of newlines. You could tell the developers were forged in an era without syntax highlighting and large horizontal screens. Extremely scannable.



The Java standard library will forever be my baseline for “good.” Perhaps the C# beats it, but then the overall ecosystem of third-party libraries is such that it isn’t worth the slight improvements in design.

Node, by comparison, is a ghetto.


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Yes! A fellow square! It's almost always a pleasant surprise to dig in and see how parts of java are actually implemented.




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