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		pkoird on May 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant... I'm not sure if this has come before but for me it'd be ffmpeg. The things it can do!

noizejoy on May 3, 2022 [–]

Insanely powerful and useful - very much so. And immeasurable impact on the entire media software and soundware landscape. It’s probably amongst my subjective top 10 list of software.

But I’ve never considered it elegant.

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