Ask HN: What is the most beautiful code you've ever seen?

[90s_dev]

[theGeatZhopa]

donald knuth introduced the "literal programming". This paradigm, having documentation and code in one, make the code readable like a book. Also, one needs to put more thoughts into code structure, making the code not only readable, but also "good layouted" with clear separations of documentation and the code.

[wonger_]

Some would say this Lisp interpreter written in Lisp: https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc

[90s_dev]

For me it's Lua. Everything from implementation to design. The perfect example of maximal orthogonality.

[WorldPeas]

there was something posted on here ages ago, a web clock whose code self-altered to change what it looked like. I wish I could find it.

[wonger_ → WorldPeas]

Maybe this JS one by aem1k? https://aem1k.com/qlock/

This Ruby clock by Yusuke Endoh is even cooler imo: https://youtu.be/pgAHW8OpcTY

[WorldPeas → wonger_]

yes! the second one is it! so cool.