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> I've spent a fair amount of time digging my teeth into it

I tend to label code that makes me do that "unreadable"; it's not that I literally can't read it (I routinely deal with worse) but it requires more effort than I consider reasonable for the medium it is presented in.

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"digging my teeth into it" wasn't meant to imply difficulty in any way, it was meant to imply depth: it's easier to read than most C codebases.

Please point me at these C codebases so I can steer clear of them except for when I need inspiration while writing reversing CTF challenges.

You might try nginx?

Seems fairly reasonable to me?

it's totally full of unwritten assumptions and the same header is usually parsed in several places slightly differently. it's a spooky action at a distance playground.

But it conveys far more information for one page than you have in other styles, so obviously it will take you more time to read + understand it. It's far more content dense. If you change the style, you probably spend more time reading it, spread over more pages & files and personally that takes me more time to read + understand (depending on the functionality, much more).

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