How much do/have you programmers look through open source code?

andy macpherson · 2014-10-30T07:56:21

There is obviously loads of open source code out there, for example, gcc, nasm, qemu and quite a few game engine, like quake, doom. I have spent many hours trolling through code trying to understand it, right now back to horde3d, how about you? Some of the biggies are, gcc nasm idtech engines qemu unreal 4 NOFL engine enemy territory engine

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Started by rAm_y_ October 26, 2014 02:54 PM

9 comments, last by Krohm 10 years, 3 months ago

Krohm

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October 30, 2014 07:56 AM

I had same Quake, QRadiant in the past. Did I learn from it? I cannot say - it is very difficult to understand how those affected me.

I recently wanted to reproduce a cryptocurrency miner, and I had to investigate the available implementations... I can tell for sure I have got nothing from those, they are just crappy.

Summing up, I'd say I look at open source very sparingly.

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