// the take
A collection of standalone code samples tied to Eli Bendersky's technical blog posts, spanning 2005 to present across a dozen-plus languages (C, C++, Go, Python, Perl, Clojure, Haskell, JS). It's for developers who want a working reference implementation of a specific low-level or CS topic, not a library you install and depend on.
Each sample pairs with a written post explaining the reasoning, so you get the 'why' alongside the code, not just a snippet. Covers genuinely hard-to-find material done properly: software breakpoints via ptrace, computed-goto dispatch tables, generators implemented as a C extension, LLVM IR generation with llvmlite - the systems-level stuff most tutorials skip. Recent entries use current tooling (go.mod, pyproject.toml/uv.lock), so it's not frozen in 2010 despite the long history. Directory-per-topic layout means you can jump straight to the one sample you need without touching anything else.
Explicitly unsupported per the README - the author states outright that old samples may no longer build with current toolchains, and there's no CI verifying they still do. No top-level index mapping samples to the blog posts they accompany, so discovery means browsing the blog itself or guessing directory names. Zero tests across the vast majority of the repo. The language and dependency sprawl is real: trying any given sample can mean installing Perl, Leiningen, Qt, or LLVM dev headers, and no single environment runs more than a handful of these at once.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →